Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 32
The folk served him courteously with many dishes seasoned of the best, a double portion.
Who acts: folk · What happens: serve, season · To what, where: fire, many dishes
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 (folk), 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 folk | det |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 served | nsubj |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 served | obj |
| 5 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 3 served | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dishes | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dishes | amod |
| 8 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 served | obl |
| 9 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dishes | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 best | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 best | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 seasoned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 portion | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 portion | det |
| 15 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 portion | amod |
| 16 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dishes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | the folk | fire | with many dishes and a double portion; courteously property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with dish=Theme | |||
| 2 | season | participle | many dishes and a double portion not said here | of the best | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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