Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 84
(It is curious that Morgain should here be represented as extremely old, while Arthur is still in his first youth.
Who acts: source, Arthur · What happens: be, represent · To what, where: Morgain, first youth
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 (source, Arthur), 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 | _ | 4 curious | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 curious | cop |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 represented | mark |
| 6 | Morgain | Morgain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 represented | aux |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 represented | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 represented | aux:pass |
| 10 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 curious | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 old | case |
| 12 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 represented | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 youth | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 youth | mark |
| 16 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 youth | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 youth | cop |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 youth | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 youth | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 youth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 youth | amod |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represented | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | source | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | should · passive | Morgain | here | as old | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as old=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | present | Arthur | Arthur's first youth | still | 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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