Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
Much sorrow and weeping was there in the hall to think that so worthy a knight as Gawain should wend his way to seek a deadly blow, and should no more wield his sword in fight.
Who acts: Much sorrow, Gawain · What happens: be, think, wend, seek, wield · To what, where: hall, way, deadly blow, sword, fight
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 (Much sorrow, Gawain), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sorrow | amod |
| 2 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 weeping | cc |
| 4 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sorrow | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 there | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 worthy | nsubj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 worthy | advmod |
| 14 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 think | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worthy | nsubj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wend | mark |
| 18 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wend | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wend | aux |
| 20 | wend | wend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knight | acl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wend | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seek | mark |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 blow | det |
| 26 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 blow | amod |
| 27 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seek | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wield | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wield | cc |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 wield | aux |
| 31 | no | no | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 wield | advmod |
| 33 | wield | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sword | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wield | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 fight | case |
| 37 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wield | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Much sorrow and weeping | the hall | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Much sorrow and weeping not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wend | should | Gawain | Gawain's way | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | a deadly blow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wield | should | Much sorrow and weeping not said here | Gawain's sword | fight | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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