Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 44
Then chaplains took their way to the chapel, and rang loudly, even as they should, for the solemn evensong of the high feast.
Who acts: chaplains · What happens: take, ring · To what, where: way, chapel
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 (chaplains), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | chaplains | chaplain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chapel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chapel | det |
| 8 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rang | cc |
| 11 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 rang | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 should | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 should | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 should | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 should | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 rang | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 evensong | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 evensong | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evensong | det |
| 21 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 evensong | amod |
| 22 | evensong | evensong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rang | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 feast | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feast | det |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feast | amod |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 evensong | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | chaplains | chaplains's way | the chapel | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to chapel=Destination | ||
| 2 | ring | past | chaplains not said here | for the solemn evensong of the high feast; loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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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