Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 16
But then the weather of the world chides with winter; the cold withdraws itself, the clouds uplift, and the rain falls in warm showers on the fair plains.
Who acts: weather, cold, rain · What happens: chide, withdraw, fall, weather · To what, where: cold, warm showers, world
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 (weather, cold, rain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 chides | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 chides | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weather | det |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chides | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weather | nmod |
| 8 | chides | chide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 winter | case |
| 10 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chides | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 withdraws | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cold | det |
| 13 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 withdraws | nsubj |
| 14 | withdraws | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 chides | conj |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 withdraws | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 uplift | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clouds | det |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 uplift | compound |
| 19 | uplift | uplift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 withdraws | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 falls | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 falls | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rain | det |
| 23 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 falls | nsubj |
| 24 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 withdraws | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 showers | case |
| 26 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 showers | amod |
| 27 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 falls | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 plains | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 plains | det |
| 30 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 plains | amod |
| 31 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 falls | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chide | present | the weather of the world | then; winter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | withdraw | present | the cold | cold | clouds uplift conj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | present | the rain | warm showers | on the fair plains | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location | |||
| 4 | weather | the world | nom weather «phenomenon 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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