Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 82
In this later form the knight bears the curious name of _Sir Bredbeddle_.
What happens: form, name · To what, where: knight bears, _ Sir
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 later | obl |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 form | advmod |
| 4 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bears | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bears | compound |
| 7 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 form | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 9 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sir | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sir | compound |
| 13 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 14 | Bredbeddle | Bredbeddle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sir | flat |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 form | discourse |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | the knight bears | the curious name of _ Sir obj; late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | _ Sir | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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