Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 17
Then the flowers come forth, meadows and groves are clad in green, the birds make ready to build, and sing sweetly for solace of the soft summer that follows thereafter.
Who acts: flowers, birds, soft summer · What happens: come, clad, make, build, sing, follow · To what, where: meadows, green, soft summer
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 (flowers, birds, soft summer), 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 | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flowers | det |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clad | punct |
| 7 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clad | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 groves | cc |
| 9 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meadows | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 clad | aux:pass |
| 11 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 come | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 green | case |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clad | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 clad | conj |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 build | mark |
| 20 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sing | cc |
| 23 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 24 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 23 sing | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 solace | case |
| 26 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 summer | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 summer | det |
| 29 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 summer | amod |
| 30 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 solace | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 follows | nsubj |
| 32 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 summer | acl:relcl |
| 33 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 32 follows | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the flowers | then | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | clad | present · passive | meadows and groves | green | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | the birds | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | build | to-infinitive | the birds not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | infinitive | the flowers not said here | for solace of the soft summer; sweetly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for solace=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | follow | present | the soft summer | thereafter property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | solace | the soft summer | nom solace «feeling 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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