Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 85
Thus in peril and pain, and many a hardship, the knight rode alone till Christmas Eve, and in that tide he made his prayer to the Blessed Virgin that she would guide his steps and lead him to some dwelling.
Who acts: knight, Sir, Eve · What happens: ride, make, guide, lead, pray, step · To what, where: peril, prayer, tide, steps, Sir, dwelling
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, Sir, Eve), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 rode | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 peril | case |
| 3 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pain | cc |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peril | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hardship | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hardship | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hardship | amod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hardship | det |
| 10 | hardship | hardship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peril | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 peril | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | nsubj |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 rode | advmod |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 Eve | case |
| 17 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Eve | compound |
| 18 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tide | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 tide | det |
| 23 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rode | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Virgin | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Virgin | det |
| 30 | Blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Virgin | amod |
| 31 | Virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 guide | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 guide | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 guide | aux |
| 35 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 steps | nmod:poss |
| 37 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 guide | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lead | cc |
| 39 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rode | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lead | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 dwelling | case |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 dwelling | det |
| 43 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lead | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the knight | peril and pain and a many hardship | till Christmas Eve | alone, thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | make | past | Sir | Sir's prayer | that tide | to the Blessed Virgin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Product | ||
| 3 | guide | would | Eve | Sir's steps | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | present | the knight not said here | Sir | some dwelling | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dwelling=Destination | |||
| 5 | pray | Sir | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | step | Sir | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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