Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 77
And the knight wended his way by many a strange road and many a rugged path, and the fashion of his countenance changed full often ere he saw the Green Chapel.
Who acts: knight, many, fashion, Sir · What happens: wend, path, change, see · To what, where: way, Green Chapel
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 (knight, many, fashion, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wended | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wended | nsubj |
| 4 | wended | wend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wended | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | nsubj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wended | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 path | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 path | nsubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 15 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 path | amod |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 road | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 changed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 changed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fashion | det |
| 20 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 countenance | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fashion | nmod |
| 24 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wended | conj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 changed | xcomp |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 saw | advmod |
| 27 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 29 saw | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 changed | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Chapel | det |
| 31 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Chapel | amod |
| 32 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wend | past | the knight | Sir's way | by a strange road and a rugged path | tree rules | |||
| 2 | path | many | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | change | past | the fashion of Sir's countenance | full property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Sir | the Green Chapel | ere, often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chapel=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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