Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 2
The knight on his charger abode on the bank of the deep double ditch that surrounded the castle.
What happens: surround · To what, where: deep double ditch, knight
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 abode | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 abode | nmod:poss |
| 5 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abode | compound |
| 6 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bank | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abode | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ditch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ditch | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ditch | amod |
| 13 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ditch | amod |
| 14 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bank | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ditch | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surrounded | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle · passive | the deep double ditch | the castle obj | 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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