Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 95
Then he lifted off his helmet, and thanked Christ and S. Julian that they had courteously granted his prayer, and hearkened to his cry.
Who acts: side · What happens: lift off, thank, grant, hearken, pray, cry · To what, where: helmet, Christ, knights
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 (side), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thanked | cc |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 10 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Julian | cc |
| 12 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Julian | compound |
| 13 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Christ | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 granted | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 granted | aux |
| 17 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 18 granted | advmod |
| 18 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thanked | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 20 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 granted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hearkened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hearkened | cc |
| 23 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 cry | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cry | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hearkened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift off | past | side | side's helmet | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | side not said here | Christ and S. Julian | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christ=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grant | past · perfect · passive | knights = knight | side's prayer obj; courteously property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal prayer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hearken | past | side not said here | to side's cry | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pray | side | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | cry | side | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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