Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 83
Then the Green Knight swiftly made him ready, he bowed down his head, and laid his long locks on the crown that his bare neck might be seen.
Who acts: Green Knight, Knight · What happens: make, bow down, lay, see · To what, where: Gawain, head, long locks, crown, bare neck
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 (Green Knight, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Knight | det |
| 3 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Knight | amod |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bowed | nsubj |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 bowed | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bowed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 locks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 locks | amod |
| 20 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laid | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 crown | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crown | det |
| 23 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 seen | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 neck | amod |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seen | aux:pass |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 laid | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Green Knight | Gawain | then | ready, swiftly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | ||
| 2 | bow down | past | Knight | Knight's head | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the Green Knight not said here | Knight's long locks | the crown | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lock=Theme on crown=Destination | |||
| 4 | see | might · passive | Knight's bare neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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