Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 7
And they spent that day in gladness, but Sir Gawain must well bethink him of the heavy venture to which he had set his hand.
Who acts: men, Gawain · What happens: spend, bethink, set · To what, where: gladness, Sir, Gawain
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 (men, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spent | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gladness | case |
| 7 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bethink | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 bethink | cc |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bethink | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bethink | aux |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 bethink | advmod |
| 14 | bethink | bethink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spent | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bethink | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 venture | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 venture | det |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 venture | amod |
| 19 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bethink | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 set | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 venture | acl:relcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | men = man | gladness | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bethink | must | Gawain Sir | Sir | of the heavy venture; well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | Gawain | to the heavy venture; Gawain's hand obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme hand=Destination |
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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