Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 76
And all answered him, Nay, never in their lives had they seen any man of such a hue.
Who acts: isles · What happens: answer, not see · To what, where: Sir, man, lives · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nay | punct |
| 6 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 3 answered | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lives | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seen | obl |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hue | case |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 hue | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hue | det |
| 20 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Sir | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | isles = isle | any man of such hue | isles's lives | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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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