Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 56
Then Arthur took the axe and gripped the haft, and swung it round, ready to strike.
Who acts: Arthur · What happens: take, grip, swing, strike · To what, where: axe, haft
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 (Arthur), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gripped | cc |
| 7 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 haft | det |
| 9 | haft | haft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gripped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swung | cc |
| 12 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swung | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 swung | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 swung | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 strike | mark |
| 18 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Arthur | the axe | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | grip | past | Arthur not said here | the haft | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haft=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | swing | past | axe | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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