Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

There they held rich revels with gay talk and jest; one while they would ride forth to joust and tourney, and again back to the court to make carols;[0] for there was the feast holden fifteen days with all the mirth that men could devise, song and glee, glorious to hear, in the daytime, and dancing at night.

Who acts: lord, feast, mirth · What happens: hold, ride, make, be, devise, hear · To what, where: rich revels, joust, carols, daytime

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 (lord, feast, mirth), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 held	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 revels	amod
5	revels	revel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 talk	case
7	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 talk	amod
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 revels	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jest	cc
10	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 held	obj
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 ride	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ride	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ride	aux
16	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 held	advcl
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 ride	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 joust	mark
19	joust	joust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ride	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tourney	cc
21	tourney	tourney	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 joust	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 back	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 back	cc
24	again	again	ADV	_	25 back	advmod
25	back	back	ADV	_	3 held	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 court	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 court	det
28	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 back	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 held	advcl
31	carols	carol	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 make	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 0	punct
33	[	[	PUNCT	_	34 0	punct
34	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 held	obl
35	]	]	PUNCT	_	34 0	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 was	mark
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 feast	det
40	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	nsubj
41	holden	holden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 days	amod
42	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 days	nummod
43	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 feast	appos
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 mirth	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 mirth	det:predet
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 mirth	det
47	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 days	nmod
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 devise	nsubj
49	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 devise	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 devise	aux
51	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 mirth	acl:relcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 song	punct
53	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 days	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 glee	cc
55	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 song	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 glorious	punct
57	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 song	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 hear	mark
59	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 glorious	xcomp
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 daytime	punct
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 daytime	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 daytime	det
63	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 hear	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 dancing	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 dancing	cc
66	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 held	advcl
67	at	at	ADP	_	68 night	case
68	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 dancing	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	lord	rich revels	there	again	with gay talk and jest; 0 obl; one obj	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent revel=Theme one=Eventuality
2	ride	would	lord	joust and tourney			forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	lord not said here	carols				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset carol=Product
4	be	past	the feast		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	devise	could	all mirth				men nsubj	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	hear	to-infinitive	the feast not said here	the daytime				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daytime=Stimulus
7	dance	gerund	lord not said here			night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 49