Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 6
Then the twain sat them down together, the king and the good knight, and men served them with a double portion, as was the share of the noblest, with all manner of meat and of minstrelsy.
Who acts: twain, men · What happens: sit down, serve, be · To what, where: king
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 (twain, men), 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 | 4 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 twain | det |
| 3 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knight | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knight | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knight | amod |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 served | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 served | cc |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 served | nsubj |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 served | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 portion | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 portion | det |
| 22 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 portion | amod |
| 23 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 served | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 share | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 share | case |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 share | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 share | det |
| 28 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 served | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 noblest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 noblest | det |
| 31 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 share | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 manner | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 manner | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 manner | det |
| 35 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 served | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 meat | case |
| 37 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 manner | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 minstrelsy | cc |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 minstrelsy | case |
| 40 | minstrelsy | minstrelsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 meat | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the twain | king | then | the king and the good knight obl; together property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | serve | past | men | king | with a double portion; with all manner of meat and minstrelsy | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with portion=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | as the share; of the noblest | tree rules |
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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