Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 64
These were worthily served on the daïs, and at the lower tables sat many valiant knights.
Who acts: lower tables · What happens: serve, sit · To what, where: These, daïs, many valiant knights
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 (lower tables), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 served | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | aux:pass |
| 3 | worthily | worthily | ADV | _ | 4 served | advmod |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 daïs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daïs | det |
| 7 | daïs | daï | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 served | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 tables | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tables | det |
| 12 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 tables | amod |
| 13 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | conj |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knights | amod |
| 16 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knights | amod |
| 17 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · passive | These | the daïs | worthily property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the lower tables | many valiant knights | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knight=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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