Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 71
So rode Sir Gawain through the realm of Logres, on an errand that he held for no jest.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: ride, hold · To what, where: Gawain, realm
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 (Sir), 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 rode | advmod |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 realm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 realm | det |
| 7 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Logres | case |
| 9 | Logres | Logres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 realm | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 errand | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 errand | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 errand | det |
| 13 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 held | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 jest | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 jest | det |
| 19 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Gawain Sir | the realm of Logres | on a errand | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gawain=Theme through realm=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hold | past | Sir | for no jest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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