Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
Sir Gawain gave good greeting to the nobles and the mighty men who came to do him honour.
Who acts: Sir, mighty men · What happens: give, come, do, honour · To what, where: good greeting, nobles, Sir
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 (Sir, mighty men), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 greeting | amod |
| 5 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 nobles | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nobles | det |
| 8 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 men | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nobles | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 men | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sir | good greeting | the nobles and the mighty men | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to noble=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past | the mighty men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the mighty men not said here | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | honour | infinitive | the mighty men not said here | tree rules |
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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