Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
The knight on his steed deemed it fair enough, if he might come to be sheltered within it to lodge there while that the Holy-day lasted.
Who acts: knight, Holy day · What happens: deem, come, shelter, lodge, last · To what, where: steed
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 (knight, Holy day), 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 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deemed | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 steed | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | nmod |
| 6 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deemed | obj |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deemed | xcomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 fair | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deemed | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sheltered | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sheltered | aux:pass |
| 17 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 come | advcl |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sheltered | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lodge | mark |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sheltered | xcomp |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lodge | advmod |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 lasted | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 lasted | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 26 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 28 day | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Holy | punct |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lasted | nsubj |
| 29 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lodge | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | past | the knight on knight's steed | steed | fair property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | might | knight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shelter | to-infinitive · passive | knight not said here | within steed | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lodge | to-infinitive | knight not said here | there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | last | past | the Holy day | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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