Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
And yet he was but a man, only the mightiest that might mount a steed; broad of chest and shoulders and slender of waist, and all his features of like fashion; but men marvelled much at his colour, for he rode even as a knight, yet was green all over.
Who acts: folk, that, features · What happens: be, mount, marvell, ride, feature · To what, where: man, steed, colour, fashion
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, that, features), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 man | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 man | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 man | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mightiest | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 mightiest | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mightiest | det |
| 11 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 mount | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mount | aux |
| 14 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mightiest | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 steed | det |
| 16 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mount | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 broad | punct |
| 18 | broad | broad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mightiest | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chest | case |
| 20 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broad | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shoulders | cc |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chest | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slender | cc |
| 24 | slender | slender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chest | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 waist | case |
| 26 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slender | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 marvelled | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 marvelled | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 features | det:predet |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 features | nmod:poss |
| 31 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 marvelled | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fashion | case |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 fashion | case |
| 34 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 features | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 marvelled | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 marvelled | cc |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 marvelled | nsubj |
| 38 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mightiest | parataxis |
| 39 | much | much | ADV | _ | 38 marvelled | advmod |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 colour | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 colour | nmod:poss |
| 42 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 marvelled | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 rode | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 rode | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 rode | nsubj |
| 46 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 marvelled | conj |
| 47 | even | even | ADV | _ | 50 knight | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 knight | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 knight | det |
| 50 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 rode | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 green | punct |
| 52 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 54 green | cc |
| 53 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 green | cop |
| 54 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 rode | conj |
| 55 | all | all | ADV | _ | 56 over | advmod |
| 56 | over | over | ADV | _ | 54 green | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | folk | a man | yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mount | might | that | a steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 3 | marvell | past | folk's features of fashion | folk's colour | men nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ride | past | folk | as a knight | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | folk not said here | green, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feature | folk | fashion | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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