Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
And ever he asked, as he fared, of all whom he met, if they had heard any tidings of a Green Knight in the country thereabout, or of a Green Chapel?
Who acts: Sir, isles · What happens: ask, fare, meet, hear · To what, where: tidings, country thereabout
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, isles), 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 | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 asked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fared | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fared | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fared | nsubj |
| 8 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whom | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 whom | nsubj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fared | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 heard | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 fared | conj |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 tidings | det |
| 21 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heard | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Knight | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Knight | det |
| 24 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Knight | amod |
| 25 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tidings | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 thereabout | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thereabout | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thereabout | compound |
| 29 | thereabout | thereabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Chapel | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 Chapel | cc |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Chapel | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Chapel | det |
| 34 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Chapel | amod |
| 35 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Sir | ever | of a Green Chapel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of chapel=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fare | past | Sir | whom obl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | Sir | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | isles = isle | any tidings of a Green Knight | the country thereabout | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
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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