Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 48
King Arthur lay at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide, with many a gallant lord and lovely lady, and all the noble brotherhood of the Round Table.
Who acts: King Arthur · What happens: lie · To what, where: Camelot
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 (King 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Arthur | compound |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Camelot | case |
| 5 | Camelot | Camelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 tide | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tide | det |
| 8 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tide | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Christmas | punct |
| 10 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lord | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lord | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lord | nsubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lord | det |
| 15 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lord | amod |
| 16 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lady | cc |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lord | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brotherhood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brotherhood | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 brotherhood | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brotherhood | det |
| 24 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 brotherhood | amod |
| 25 | brotherhood | brotherhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Table | det |
| 28 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Table | compound |
| 29 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 brotherhood | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | King Arthur | Camelot | upon a Christmas tide; with a gallant lord and lovely lady; all noble brotherhood of the Round Table parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at camelot=Location |
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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