Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 84
Gawain gripped his axe and raised it on high, the left foot he set forward on the floor, and let the blow fall lightly on the bare neck.
Who acts: Gawain, blow · What happens: grip, raise, set forward, let, fall · To what, where: axe, high, left foot, floor, 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 (Gawain, blow), 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 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gripped | nsubj |
| 2 | gripped | grip | 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 axe | nmod:poss |
| 4 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gripped | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 raised | cc |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gripped | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 raised | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 high | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 raised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 foot | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 12 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 foot | amod |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 foot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 gripped | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blow | det |
| 24 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | nsubj |
| 25 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 25 fall | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 neck | det |
| 29 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 neck | amod |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | past | Gawain | Gawain's axe | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Gawain not said here | axe | high | the left foot obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on high=Destination | ||
| 3 | set forward | past | Gawain | the left foot not said here | the floor | forward property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on floor=Destination | ||
| 4 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fall | present | the blow | the bare neck | lightly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location |
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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