Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 83
Yet he cared not so much for the strife, what he deemed worse was when the cold clear water was shed from the clouds, and froze ere it fell on the fallow ground.
Who acts: Sir, water · What happens: not care, deem, shed, freeze, fall · To what, where: strife, clouds, fallow ground
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, water), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 cared | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cared | nsubj |
| 3 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 cared | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 cared | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 strife | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strife | det |
| 9 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 deemed | nsubj |
| 13 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 deemed | xcomp |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shed | aux:pass |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 shed | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 19 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shed | aux:pass |
| 22 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 strife | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 clouds | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clouds | det |
| 25 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 froze | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 froze | cc |
| 28 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cared | parataxis |
| 29 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 28 froze | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fell | nsubj |
| 31 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 froze | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 34 | fallow | fallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ground | amod |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fell | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past | Sir | for the strife | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for strife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deem | past | Sir | bad property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shed | past · passive | the strife | the clouds | the cold clear water nsubj:pass | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 4 | freeze | past | ere property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | water | the fallow ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
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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