Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 90
Thus he rode praying, and lamenting his misdeeds, and he crossed himself, and said, “May the Cross of Christ speed me.”
Who acts: Credo, May Cross · What happens: ride, pray, lament, cross, say, speed · To what, where: misdeeds, Credo · 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 (Credo, May Cross), 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 | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rode | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lamenting | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lamenting | cc |
| 7 | lamenting | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 praying | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 misdeeds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lamenting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crossed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crossed | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crossed | nsubj |
| 13 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 crossed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cross | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cross | punct |
| 20 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cross | compound |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cross | det |
| 22 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 speed | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Christ | case |
| 24 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cross | nmod |
| 25 | speed | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 speed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Credo | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray | gerund | Credo not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | lament | gerund | Credo not said here | Credo's misdeeds | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misdeed=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cross | past | Credo | Credo | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Credo not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | speed in a quote | present | the May Cross of Christ | Credo | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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