Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 46
Then the lord took him by the sleeve and led him to a seat, and called him by his name, and told him he was of all men in the world the most welcome.
Who acts: lord · What happens: take, lead, call, tell, be, name · To what, where: speech, lord, seat, world · 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), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sleeve | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sleeve | det |
| 8 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 led | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 seat | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 seat | det |
| 14 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 told | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 told | cc |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 men | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 men | cop |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 men | det |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 told | ccomp |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 men | nmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 welcome | det |
| 35 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 36 welcome | advmod |
| 36 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the lord | speech | then | by the sleeve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||
| 2 | lead | past | the lord not said here | lord | a seat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to seat=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | past | the lord not said here | lord | by lord's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the lord not said here | lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | lord | the world | of all men | tree rules | |||
| 6 | name | lord | nom name «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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