Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 23
When the Michaelmas moon was come in with warnings of winter, Sir Gawain bethought him full oft of his perilous journey.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: come in, bethink, warn, journey · To what, where: Michaelmas moon, moon, winter
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 (Sir), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 3 | Michaelmas | Michaelmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 moon | compound |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux:pass |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bethought | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 warnings | case |
| 9 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warnings | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sir | punct |
| 13 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bethought | nsubj |
| 14 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sir | flat |
| 15 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bethought | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 oft | amod |
| 18 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bethought | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 journey | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 journey | amod |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oft | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past · passive | the Michaelmas moon | with warnings of winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bethink | past | Sir | moon | oft property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | warn | winter | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | journey | Sir | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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