Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 28
There with mirthful speeches they took from the guest his byrny and all his shining armour, and brought him rich robes of the choicest in its stead.
Who acts: curtains · What happens: take, shine, bring · To what, where: shining armour, rich robes, guest
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 (curtains), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 took | expl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 speeches | case |
| 3 | mirthful | mirthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speeches | amod |
| 4 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 guest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guest | det |
| 9 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 byrny | nmod:poss |
| 11 | byrny | byrny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guest | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 all | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 armour | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 armour | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 armour | amod |
| 16 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 robes | amod |
| 22 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 choicest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 choicest | det |
| 25 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 robes | appos |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 stead | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stead | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 choicest | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | curtains = curtain | guest's shining armour | there | with mirthful speeches; from the guest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent armour=Theme from guest=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bring | past | curtains = curtain not said here | rich robes | guest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination robe=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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