Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 80
_ The enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere, which is here stated to have been the _motif_ of the enchantment, is no invention of the author, but is found in the _Merlin_, probably the earliest of the Arthurian _prose_ romances.
Who acts: enmity · What happens: state, be, find · To what, where: enmity, _ motif, invention, Merlin
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enmity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 enmity | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enmity | det |
| 3 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 invention | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Fay | case |
| 5 | Morgain | Morgain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fay | compound |
| 6 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fay | compound |
| 7 | Fay | Fay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 enmity | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Guinevere | cc |
| 9 | Guinevere | Guinevere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fay | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stated | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stated | aux:pass |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stated | advmod |
| 14 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 enmity | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 motif | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 motif | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 motif | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 motif | det |
| 19 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 motif | amod |
| 20 | motif | motif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stated | advcl |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 motif | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 enchantment | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 enchantment | det |
| 24 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 motif | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 enmity | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 invention | cop |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 invention | det |
| 28 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 author | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 author | det |
| 31 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 invention | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 found | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 found | cc |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 found | aux:pass |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 invention | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Merlin | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Merlin | det |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Merlin | punct |
| 39 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 found | obl |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 found | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 earliest | punct |
| 42 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 44 earliest | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 earliest | det |
| 44 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 invention | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Arthurian | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Arthurian | det |
| 47 | Arthurian | Arthurian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 earliest | obl |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 prose | punct |
| 49 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Arthurian | conj |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 romances | punct |
| 51 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 Arthurian | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 invention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present · passive | the enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the _ motif | of the enchantment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere | no invention | of the author | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | present · passive | no invention not said here | the Merlin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | ||||
| 5 | be | the enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere not said here | of the Arthurian and prose and romances; probably property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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