Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
So armed as he was he hearkened Mass and made his offering at the high altar.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: be, make, offer · To what, where: offering, high altar
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 armed | advmod |
| 2 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearkened | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hearkened | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hearkened | cop |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hearkened | nsubj |
| 7 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 armed | advcl |
| 8 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hearkened | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hearkened | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 offering | nmod:poss |
| 12 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 altar | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 altar | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 altar | amod |
| 16 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 armed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain | Mass obj; hearken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Gawain not said here | Gawain's offering | the high altar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offering=Product | |||
| 4 | offer | Gawain | nom offering «communication 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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