Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 33
All kinds of fish were there, some baked in bread, some broiled on the embers, some sodden, some stewed and savoured with spices, with all sorts of cunning devices to his taste.
Who acts: kinds, bread, fire · What happens: be, bake, broil, stew, savour, sort · To what, where: some, cunning devices
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 (kinds, bread, fire), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 kinds | det |
| 2 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fish | case |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kinds | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 baked | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 there | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bread | case |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 baked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 broiled | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 broiled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | broiled | broil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bread | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 embers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 embers | det |
| 17 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 broiled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sodden | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 sodden | det |
| 20 | sodden | sodden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bread | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stewed | punct |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 stewed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | stewed | stew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sodden | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 savoured | cc |
| 25 | savoured | savour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stewed | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 spices | case |
| 27 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 savoured | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sorts | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 sorts | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 sorts | det |
| 31 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stewed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 devices | case |
| 33 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 devices | compound |
| 34 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sorts | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 taste | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 taste | nmod:poss |
| 37 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stewed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all kinds of fish | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bake | participle · passive | some | in bread | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in bread=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | broil | participle · passive | bread not said here | some | on the embers | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on ember=Instrument | |||
| 4 | stew | participle · passive | some | with all sorts of cunning devices; to fire's taste result | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sort=Instrument to taste=Result | ||||
| 5 | savour | participle | with spices | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sort | cunning devices | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | taste | fire | nom taste «cognition 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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