Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
Sir Dodinel le Sauvage, Launcelot and Lionel, and Lucan the Good, Sir Bors and Sir Bedivere, valiant knights both, and many another hero, with Sir Mador de la Porte, and they all drew near, heavy at heart, to take counsel with Sir Gawain.
Who acts: knights · What happens: draw, take · To what, where: Dodinel, counsel
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 (knights), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Dodinel | Dodinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | flat |
| 4 | Sauvage | Sauvage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Launcelot | punct |
| 6 | Launcelot | Launcelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Lionel | cc |
| 8 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Launcelot | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lucan | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Lucan | cc |
| 11 | Lucan | Lucan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Good | det |
| 13 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lucan | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sir | punct |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | conj |
| 16 | Bors | Bors | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | flat |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Sir | cc |
| 18 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | conj |
| 19 | Bedivere | Bedivere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sir | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knights | punct |
| 21 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 knights | amod |
| 22 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Dodinel | conj |
| 23 | both | both | ADV | _ | 22 knights | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hero | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hero | cc |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hero | amod |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 hero | det |
| 28 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mador | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 Mador | case |
| 31 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mador | nmod:desc |
| 32 | Mador | Mador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodinel | conj |
| 33 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 Mador | dep |
| 34 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 Mador | appos |
| 35 | Porte | Porte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 la | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 drew | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 drew | cc |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 drew | nsubj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 drew | advmod |
| 40 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Dodinel | acl:relcl |
| 41 | near | near | ADV | _ | 40 drew | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 heavy | punct |
| 43 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dodinel | amod |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 heart | case |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 heavy | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 take | punct |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 take | mark |
| 48 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Dodinel | parataxis |
| 49 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 take | obj |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 Gawain | case |
| 51 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 52 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 take | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dodinel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | knights = knight | Dodinel Sir and Launcelot and Lionel and Lucan and Sir and Sir and valiant knights and Mador Sir not said here | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodinel=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | counsel | with Gawain Sir | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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