Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 57
But Arthur would not eat till all were served, so full of joy and gladness was he, even as a child; he liked not either to lie long, or to sit long at meat, so worked upon him his young blood and his wild brain.
Who acts: Arthur, Guinevere · What happens: not eat, serve, be, not like, lie, sit · To what, where: all, Guinevere, meat, young blood
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 (Arthur, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 eat | cc |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 served | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 served | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 served | aux:pass |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eat | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 full | advmod |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gladness | cc |
| 16 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joy | conj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 he | cop |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 full | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 child | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 child | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 liked | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 liked | nsubj |
| 26 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | conj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 liked | advmod |
| 28 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 liked | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 lie | mark |
| 30 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 liked | xcomp |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 lie | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sit | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 sit | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sit | mark |
| 35 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 36 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 sit | advmod |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 meat | case |
| 38 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sit | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 worked | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 worked | advmod |
| 41 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sit | conj |
| 42 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 worked | obl |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 blood | nmod:poss |
| 45 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 blood | amod |
| 46 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 worked | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 brain | cc |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 brain | nmod:poss |
| 49 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 brain | amod |
| 50 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 blood | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | would | Arthur | as a child | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | serve | past · passive | all | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Guinevere | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not like | past | Guinevere | either property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie not said to happen | to-infinitive | Guinevere not said here | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sit | to-infinitive | Arthur not said here | meat | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location | |||
| 7 | work | past | Arthur not said here | Guinevere's young blood and Guinevere's wild brain | upon Guinevere | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blood=Material |
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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