Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 85
The sharp edge of the blade sundered the bones, smote through the neck, and clave it in two, so that the edge of the steel bit on the ground, and the head rolled even to the horse’s feet.
Who acts: sharp edge, edge · What happens: sunder, smote, clave, roll · To what, where: bones, two, neck, feet
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 (sharp edge, edge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 edge | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 edge | amod |
| 3 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sundered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 blade | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blade | det |
| 6 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 edge | nmod |
| 7 | sundered | sunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bones | det |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sundered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smote | punct |
| 11 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sundered | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neck | det |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smote | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clave | cc |
| 17 | clave | clave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sundered | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 clave | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 two | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sundered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rolled | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 rolled | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 rolled | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rolled | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bit | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bit | det |
| 28 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bit | compound |
| 29 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 ground | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ground | det |
| 32 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bit | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rolled | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 rolled | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 head | det |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rolled | nsubj |
| 37 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sundered | parataxis |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 feet | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 feet | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 horse | det |
| 41 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 feet | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 horse | case |
| 43 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 rolled | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sunder | past | the sharp edge of the blade | the bones | two | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | |||
| 2 | smote | infinitive | the sharp edge of the blade not said here | the neck | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clave | edge | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | roll | past | the edge of the steel bit on the ground | the horse's feet | the head nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
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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