Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 18
Clad in his shining armour they led him to the hall, where a great fire burnt brightly on the floor; and the lord of the household came forth from his chamber to meet the hero fitly.
Who acts: Clad, lord · What happens: shine, lead, burnt, come, meet · To what, where: Sir, hall, great fire, floor, chamber, hero
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 (Clad, lord), 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 | Clad | Clad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 led | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 armour | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 armour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 armour | amod |
| 5 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clad | nmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 where | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 hall | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fire | amod |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 where | nsubj |
| 17 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fire | acl |
| 18 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 17 burnt | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 floor | det |
| 21 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burnt | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lord | det |
| 25 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 household | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 household | det |
| 28 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lord | nmod |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | conj |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 chamber | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 33 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 meet | mark |
| 35 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 came | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hero | det |
| 37 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 meet | obj |
| 38 | fitly | fitly | ADV | _ | 35 meet | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past | Clad in Clad's shining armour | Sir | the hall | men = man nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hall=Destination | ||
| 3 | burnt | participle | a great fire not said here | the floor | brightly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | the lord of the household | Sir's chamber | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | the lord of the household not said here | the hero | fitly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Co-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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