Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 63
And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn, and Ywain, King Urien’s son, sat at the other side alone.
Who acts: Bishop · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: Bishop, end, other side
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 (Bishop), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Bishop | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bishop | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Bishop | cop |
| 9 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | Bawdewyn | Bawdewyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bishop | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ywain | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ywain | cc |
| 13 | Ywain | Ywain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bishop | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bishop | conj |
| 16 | Urien | Urien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | flat |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bishop | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bishop | punct |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 sat | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bishop and Ywain and King | at the end of the table | Ywain conj; King conj; son appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Bishop and Ywain and King | the other side | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=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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