Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 11
Even the steed on which he rode was of the same hue, a green horse, great and strong, and hard to hold, with broidered bridle, meet for the rider.
Who acts: folk, steed · What happens: ride, be, hold, broider, meet · To what, where: steed, broidered bridle
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk, steed), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 steed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steed | det |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hue | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 rode | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 steed | acl:relcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hue | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hue | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hue | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hue | amod |
| 12 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hue | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 great | punct |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strong | cc |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 great | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hard | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hard | cc |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hue | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hold | mark |
| 25 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hard | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bridle | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 bridle | case |
| 28 | broidered | broider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 bridle | amod |
| 29 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hold | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 meet | punct |
| 31 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hold | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 rider | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rider | det |
| 34 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 meet | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | folk | the steed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the steed | of the same hue and a green horse; a green horse conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the steed not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | the steed not said here | broidered bridle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | broider | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | meet | infinitive | the steed not said here | for the rider | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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