Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 15
There came down knights and squires to bring the guest with joy to the hall.
What happens: come down, bring · To what, where: knights, guest, hall
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 came | expl |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 squires | cc |
| 6 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knights | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guest | det |
| 10 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 joy | case |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | knights and squires | there | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knight=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the guest | the hall | with joy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guest=Theme to hall=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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