Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 90
He turned his steed about, the grim corpse bleeding freely the while, and they who looked upon him doubted them much for the covenant.
Who acts: Knight, grim corpse, blood · What happens: turn, bleed, look, doubt · To what, where: steed, blood
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, grim corpse, blood), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | 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 steed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 corpse | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corpse | det |
| 8 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 corpse | amod |
| 9 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 10 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 corpse | acl |
| 11 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 10 bleeding | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 while | det |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bleeding | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 21 doubted | mark |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doubted | nsubj |
| 21 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doubted | obj |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 doubted | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 covenant | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 covenant | det |
| 26 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 doubted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Knight | Knight's steed | the grim corpse parataxis; about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | |||
| 2 | bleed | gerund | the grim corpse not said here | while | freely property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 3 | look | past | blood | who nsubj | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | doubt | past | Knight | blood | for the covenant | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for covenant=Attribute |
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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