Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 22
As friends that were fain each embraced the other; and Gawain looked on the knight who greeted him so kindly, and thought ’twas a bold warrior that owned that burg.
Who acts: friends, Gawain, knight, bold warrior · What happens: be, embrace, look, greet, think, own · To what, where: other, Gawain, twas, burg
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 (friends, Gawain, knight, bold warrior), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 friends | case |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 embraced | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fain | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fain | cop |
| 5 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friends | acl:relcl |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 embraced | advmod |
| 7 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 embraced | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 12 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 embraced | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 knight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 greeted | nsubj |
| 18 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knight | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 greeted | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 kindly | advmod |
| 21 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 18 greeted | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thought | cc |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 embraced | conj |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 twas | punct |
| 26 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thought | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 warrior | det |
| 28 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 warrior | amod |
| 29 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 twas | appos |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 owned | nsubj |
| 31 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 burg | det |
| 33 | burg | burg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 owned | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | friends | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | the other | as friends | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Gawain | on the knight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on knight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | the knight | Gawain | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | twas | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot twa=Theme | |||||
| 6 | own | past | a bold warrior | that burg | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot burg=Theme |
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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