Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 53
Now the New Year had but newly come in, and on that day a double portion was served on the high table to all the noble guests, and thither came the king with all his knights, when the service in the chapel had been sung to an end.
Who acts: New Year · What happens: have, come in, serve, come, sing · To what, where: double portion, high table, king, service, end
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 (New Year), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Year | det |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 come | cc |
| 7 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 served | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 served | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 served | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 portion | det |
| 16 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 portion | amod |
| 17 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 served | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 served | aux:pass |
| 19 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 table | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 table | det |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 table | amod |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 served | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 guests | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 guests | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 guests | det |
| 27 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 guests | amod |
| 28 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 table | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 31 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 32 came | advmod |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 knights | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 knights | det:predet |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 knights | nmod:poss |
| 38 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 came | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 sung | punct |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 sung | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 service | det |
| 42 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 chapel | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 chapel | det |
| 45 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 service | nmod |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 sung | aux |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 sung | aux:pass |
| 48 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 knights | conj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 end | case |
| 50 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 end | det |
| 51 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sung | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the New Year | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in | infinitive | the New Year not said here | newly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve | past · passive | a double portion | the high table to all noble guests | day | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 4 | come | past | the New Year not said here | the king | with Arthur's knights; thither property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | |||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past · perfect · passive | the service in the chapel | a end | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to end=Recipient |
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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