Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
She came through the chancel to greet the hero, another lady held her by the left hand, older than she, and seemingly of high estate, with many nobles about her.
Who acts: charm, lady · What happens: come, greet, hold · To what, where: chancel, hero, charm
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 (charm, lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 chancel | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chancel | det |
| 5 | chancel | chancel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 greet | mark |
| 7 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hero | det |
| 9 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greet | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 17 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 older | punct |
| 20 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 hand | amod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 she | case |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 older | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 estate | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 estate | cc |
| 25 | seemingly | seemingly | ADV | _ | 28 estate | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 estate | case |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 estate | amod |
| 28 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 nobles | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 nobles | case |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nobles | amod |
| 32 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 estate | conj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 nobles | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | charm | the chancel | high estate and many nobles about lady parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through chancel=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | charm not said here | the hero | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | another lady | charm | by the left hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=Location |
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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