Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
For Yule was now over-past,[3] and the year after, each season in its turn following the other.
Who acts: turn · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: other
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 Yule | case |
| 2 | Yule | Yule | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 over-past | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over-past | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 over-past | advmod |
| 5 | over-past | over-past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 3 | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 3 | punct |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 over-past | obl |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 3 | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 year | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over-past | conj |
| 13 | after | after | ADV | _ | 12 year | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 season | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 season | det |
| 16 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over-past | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 turn | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 turn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 season | nmod |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 turn | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 following | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 over-past | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | now; season | for Yule; 3 obl; over-past property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | waning's turn not said here | the other | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
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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