Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 88
_—The later version connects this _lace_ with that worn by the knights of the Bath; but this latter was _white_, not _green_.
Who acts: later version, that, latter · What happens: connect, wear, be · To what, where: _ lace, _ white _
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 (later version, that, latter), 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 | _ | 6 connects | punct |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 connects | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 version | det |
| 4 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 version | amod |
| 5 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 connects | nsubj |
| 6 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lace | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lace | amod |
| 9 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 connects | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 connects | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 worn | mark |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 worn | nsubj |
| 13 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 connects | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 knights | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knights | det |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 worn | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Bath | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bath | det |
| 19 | Bath | Bath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 knights | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 _ | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 latter | cc |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 latter | nsubj |
| 23 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 _ | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 _ | cop |
| 25 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 _ | amod |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 _ | amod |
| 27 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 connects | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 green | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 green | advmod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 green | punct |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 _ | appos |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 green | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 connects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present | the later version | this _ lace | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | participle | that | by the knights of the Bath | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | latter this | _ white _ | 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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