Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 65
Then they bare the first course with the blast of trumpets and waving of banners, with the sound of drums and pipes, of song and lute, that many a heart was uplifted at the melody.
Who acts: Bishop · What happens: bare, wave, uplift, blast · To what, where: first course, many heart, melody, trumpets
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bare | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bare | nsubj |
| 3 | bare | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 course | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 course | amod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bare | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blast | det |
| 9 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bare | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 trumpets | case |
| 11 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blast | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waving | cc |
| 13 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bare | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 banners | case |
| 15 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 waving | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sound | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sound | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bare | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 drums | case |
| 21 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sound | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pipes | cc |
| 23 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drums | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 song | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 song | case |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lute | cc |
| 28 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 song | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 uplifted | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 uplifted | mark |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 heart | amod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 heart | det |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 uplifted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 uplifted | aux:pass |
| 35 | uplifted | uplift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sound | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 melody | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 melody | det |
| 38 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 uplifted | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bare | present | Bishop | the first course | then | with the blast of trumpets; with the sound of drums and pipes and song and lute | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | ||
| 2 | wave | gerund | Bishop not said here | of banners | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | uplift | past · passive | a many heart | the melody | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | blast | trumpets | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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