Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 14
Then men came to him and held his stirrup while he dismounted, and took and stabled his steed.
Who acts: men, Sir · What happens: come, hold, dismount, take, stable · To what, where: Sir, stirrup, steed
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 (men, Sir), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 held | cc |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stirrup | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 dismounted | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dismounted | nsubj |
| 12 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stabled | cc |
| 17 | stabled | stable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 steed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stabled | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | men | Sir | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hold | past | men not said here | Sir's stirrup | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dismount | past | Sir | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | men not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stable | past | men not said here | Sir's steed | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme steed=Destination |
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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