Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 43
After the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes, and the traitor slain for his treason, the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and patrons of well-nigh all the Western Isles.
Who acts: noble Æneas · What happens: destroy, burnt, sail, become, assault · To what, where: burg, princes, Troy
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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble Æneas), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 siege | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 siege | det |
| 3 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sailed | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 assault | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 assault | det |
| 6 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 siege | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Troy | case |
| 8 | Troy | Troy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assault | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 destroyed | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 destroyed | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 burg | det |
| 12 | burg | burg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 14 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 assault | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 burnt | cc |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 destroyed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ashes | case |
| 18 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burnt | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slain | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slain | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 slain | det |
| 22 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slain | compound |
| 23 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 siege | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 treason | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 treason | nmod:poss |
| 26 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slain | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 siege | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Æneas | det |
| 29 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Æneas | amod |
| 30 | Æneas | Æneas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sailed | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 kin | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 kin | nmod:poss |
| 33 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Æneas | conj |
| 34 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 34 sailed | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 become | mark |
| 37 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sailed | advcl |
| 38 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 become | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 patrons | cc |
| 40 | patrons | patron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 princes | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Isles | case |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 Isles | advmod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 well | punct |
| 44 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 48 Isles | advmod |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 Isles | det:predet |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Isles | det |
| 47 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Isles | amod |
| 48 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 patrons | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past · passive | that burg | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | burnt | participle | to ashes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sail | past | the noble Æneas and Troy's kin | after the siege and the assault of Troy and the traitor slain for Troy's treason | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | the noble Æneas and Troy's kin not said here | princes and patrons of all Western Isles | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | assault | Troy | nom assault «act 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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