Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 50
Halls and chambers were crowded with noble guests, the bravest of knights and the loveliest of ladies, and Arthur himself was the comeliest king that ever held a court.
Who acts: Halls, Arthur, comeliest king · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: comeliest king, court
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 (Halls, Arthur, comeliest king), 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 | Halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crowded | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chambers | cc |
| 3 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Halls | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowded | cop |
| 5 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 guests | case |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 guests | amod |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crowded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bravest | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bravest | det |
| 11 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 crowded | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 knights | case |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bravest | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loveliest | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loveliest | det |
| 16 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 bravest | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ladies | case |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 loveliest | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 king | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 king | cc |
| 21 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nsubj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 21 Arthur | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 king | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 25 | comeliest | comely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 king | amod |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowded | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 held | nsubj |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 held | advmod |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 king | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 court | det |
| 31 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 held | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Halls and chambers | with noble guests; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Arthur Arthur | the comeliest king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | the comeliest king | a court | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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