Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
Then he seated himself in his saddle as if naught ailed him, and he were not headless.
Who acts: Knight, naught · What happens: seat, ail, not be · To what, where: Knight, saddle
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 (Knight, naught), 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 seated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 saddle | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 ailed | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 ailed | mark |
| 10 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 ailed | nsubj |
| 11 | ailed | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ailed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 headless | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 headless | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 headless | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 headless | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 headless | advmod |
| 18 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ailed | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | Knight | Knight | Knight's saddle | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in saddle=Location | ||
| 2 | ail | past | naught | Knight | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Knight | headless property | tree rules |
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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