Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 55
Then they washed and sat them down to the feast in fitting rank and order, and Guinevere the queen, gaily clad, sat on the high daïs.
Who acts: kings, Guinevere · What happens: wash, sit down, sit · To what, where: kings, fitting rank, high daïs
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 (kings, Guinevere), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 washed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 washed | nsubj |
| 3 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 feast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rank | case |
| 12 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rank | amod |
| 13 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 order | cc |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rank | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 18 | Guinevere | Guinevere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 queen | det |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Guinevere | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clad | punct |
| 22 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clad | amod |
| 23 | clad | clad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 queen | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Guinevere | punct |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 daïs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 daïs | det |
| 28 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 daïs | amod |
| 29 | daïs | daï | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sat | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | kings = king | then | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | kings = king not said here | kings = king | fitting rank and order | to the feast | tree rules | ||
| 3 | sit | past | Guinevere | the high daïs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on daï=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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