Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 25
Then the lord led Sir Gawain to a chamber, and commanded folk to wait upon him, and at his bidding there came men enough who brought the guest to a fair bower.
Who acts: lord, bidding, men, Gawain · What happens: lead, command, wait, come, bring, bid · To what, where: Gawain, chamber, folk, men, guest, fair bower · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lord, bidding, men, Gawain), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commanded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 commanded | cc |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commanded | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wait | mark |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commanded | xcomp |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wait | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 bidding | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 bidding | advmod |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | obj |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 men | advmod |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 brought | nsubj |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 men | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 guest | det |
| 30 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 bower | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bower | det |
| 33 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bower | amod |
| 34 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the lord | Gawain Sir | a chamber | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gawain=Theme to chamber=Destination | ||
| 2 | command | past | the lord not said here | folk | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent folk=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lord not said here | upon Gawain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Gawain's bidding | men | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | men | the guest | a fair bower | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guest=Theme to bower=Destination | |||
| 6 | bid | Gawain | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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