Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 1
The bridge was drawn up and the gates close shut; the walls were strong and thick, so that they might fear no tempest.
Who acts: gates, walls · What happens: draw up, close, be, fear · To what, where: bridge, tempest
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gates, walls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridge | det |
| 2 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | aux:pass |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 drawn | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 close | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 close | nsubj |
| 9 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | conj |
| 10 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 close | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 strong | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 strong | cop |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drawn | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thick | cc |
| 17 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strong | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fear | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 fear | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fear | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fear | aux |
| 23 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drawn | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 tempest | det |
| 25 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fear | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past · passive | the bridge | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | close | present | the gates | shut property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the walls | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the walls not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fear | might | walls = wall | no tempest | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tempest=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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