Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 41
Then he came to the king, and the knights of his court, and courteously took leave of lords and ladies, and they kissed him, and commended him to Christ.
Who acts: Gawain, lady · What happens: come, take, kiss, commend · To what, where: leave, Gawain, Christ
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, lady), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knights | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knights | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knights | det |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 court | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 court | nmod:poss |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knights | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lords | case |
| 20 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leave | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ladies | cc |
| 22 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lords | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kissed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kissed | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kissed | nsubj |
| 26 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kissed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 commended | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 commended | cc |
| 30 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 commended | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Christ | case |
| 33 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 commended | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Gawain | then | to the king; the knights of Gawain's court conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | Gawain not said here | leave of lords and ladies | courteously property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 3 | kiss | past | lady | Gawain | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | commend | past | Gawain not said here | Gawain | Christ | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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