Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
The blood spurted forth, and glistened on the green raiment, but the knight neither faltered nor fell; he started forward with out-stretched hand, and caught the head, and lifted it up; then he turned to his steed, and took hold of the bridle, set his foot in the stirrup, and mounted.
Who acts: blood, Knight · What happens: spurt, glisten, falter, fall, start, stretch · To what, where: blood, green raiment, head, steed, hold, foot
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 (blood, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blood | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 faltered | nsubj |
| 3 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blood | acl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 spurted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glistened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glistened | cc |
| 7 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spurted | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 raiment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raiment | det |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 raiment | amod |
| 11 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glistened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 faltered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 faltered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knight | det |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 faltered | nsubj |
| 16 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 17 faltered | advmod |
| 17 | faltered | falter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 fell | cc |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 faltered | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 started | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 faltered | conj |
| 23 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 22 started | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 out | punct |
| 27 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 started | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 caught | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 caught | cc |
| 31 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 started | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 head | det |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 caught | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lifted | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lifted | cc |
| 36 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 caught | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lifted | obj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 lifted | compound:prt |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 turned | punct |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 turned | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 turned | nsubj |
| 42 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 faltered | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 steed | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 steed | nmod:poss |
| 45 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 turned | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 took | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 took | cc |
| 48 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 turned | conj |
| 49 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 took | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 bridle | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 bridle | det |
| 52 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 hold | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 set | punct |
| 54 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 took | conj |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 foot | nmod:poss |
| 56 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 set | obj |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 stirrup | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 stirrup | det |
| 59 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 set | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 mounted | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 mounted | cc |
| 62 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 took | conj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 faltered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spurt | participle | the blood not said here | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | glisten | participle | the green raiment | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on raiment=Location | |||||
| 3 | falter | past | the blood | the knight nsubj; neither property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the blood not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | start | past | Knight | with stretched hand; forward property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with hand=Subeventuality | ||||
| 6 | stretch | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | catch | past | the head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 8 | lift up | past | head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 9 | turn | past | Knight | Knight's steed | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steed=Trajectory | |||
| 10 | take | past | Knight not said here | hold of the bridle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 11 | set | past | Knight not said here | Knight's foot | the stirrup | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in stirrup=Destination | |||
| 12 | mount | participle | Knight not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 13 | hold | the bridle | nom hold «act transitive»: 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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