Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
At length he drew nigh to North Wales, and left the isles of Anglesey on his left hand, crossing over the fords by the foreland over at Holyhead, till he came into the wilderness of Wirral,[6] that is loved neither of God nor of man, and there he abode but a little time.
Who acts: Sir, God · What happens: draw, leave, cross over, come, love, abide · To what, where: North Wales, length, isles, left hand, fords, 6
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, God), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Wales | case |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wales | compound |
| 8 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 isles | det |
| 13 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Anglesey | case |
| 15 | Anglesey | Anglesey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 isles | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hand | amod |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crossing | punct |
| 21 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 left | advcl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 fords | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fords | det |
| 24 | fords | ford | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crossing | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 foreland | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 foreland | det |
| 27 | foreland | foreland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crossing | obl |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 crossing | compound:prt |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 Holyhead | case |
| 30 | Holyhead | Holyhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 crossing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 came | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 wilderness | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wilderness | det |
| 37 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Wirral | case |
| 39 | Wirral | Wirral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 wilderness | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 6 | punct |
| 41 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 42 6 | punct |
| 42 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 came | obl |
| 43 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 42 6 | punct |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 loved | aux:pass |
| 46 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 came | parataxis |
| 47 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 God | nsubj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 God | case |
| 49 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 loved | obl:agent |
| 50 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 52 man | cc |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 man | case |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 God | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 abode | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 abode | cc |
| 55 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 57 abode | expl |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 abode | nsubj |
| 57 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 58 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 57 abode | cc |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 time | det |
| 60 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 time | amod |
| 61 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 abode | obl:unmarked |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Sir | North Wales | length | nigh property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wales=Destination | ||
| 2 | leave | past | Sir not said here | the isles of Anglesey | Sir's left hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent isle=Theme on hand=Location | |||
| 3 | cross over | gerund | Sir not said here | the fords | by the foreland; at Holyhead | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over ford=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | come | past | Sir | 6 | the wilderness of Wirral | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | love | present · passive | God nor man | that | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | abide | past | Sir | there | time | 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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