Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 24
He cast his eyes on the knights, and mustered them up and down, striving ever to see who of them was of most renown.
Who acts: Knight · What happens: cast, muster up, strive, see, be · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Knight), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cast | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 knights | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knights | det |
| 7 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mustered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mustered | cc |
| 10 | mustered | muster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cast | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mustered | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 mustered | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 down | cc |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 up | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 striving | punct |
| 16 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mustered | advcl |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 striving | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 striving | advcl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 renown | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 who | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 renown | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 renown | case |
| 25 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 renown | amod |
| 26 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | Knight | Knight's eyes | on the knights | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on knight=Destination | |||
| 2 | muster up | past | Knight not said here | eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strive | gerund | Knight not said here | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Knight not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | of most renown; who of eyes nsubj | tree rules |
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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