Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 66
Many were the dainties, and rare the meats, so great was the plenty they might scarce find room on the board to set on the dishes.
Who acts: plenty, dainties · What happens: be, scarce, set · To what, where: Many dainties, find room, board, dishes
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 (plenty, dainties), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dainties | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dainties | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dainties | det |
| 4 | dainties | dainty | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rare | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rare | cc |
| 7 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dainties | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meats | det |
| 9 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rare | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rare | conj |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 great | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plenty | det |
| 15 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scarce | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 scarce | aux |
| 18 | scarce | scarce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 plenty | acl:relcl |
| 19 | find | find | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | compound |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scarce | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 board | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 board | det |
| 23 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 set | mark |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 scarce | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 dishes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dishes | det |
| 28 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dainties | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Many dainties | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | the plenty | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scarce | might | dainties = dainty | find room | the board | tree rules | |||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | dainties = dainty not said here | the dishes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination |
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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