Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 59
Then they took him between them, and talking, led him to the chamber, to the hearth, and bade them bring spices, and they brought them in plenty with the good wine that was wont to be drunk at such seasons.
Who acts: friends, good wine · What happens: take, talk, lead, bade, bring, be · To what, where: Gawain, chamber, friends, spices, plenty
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 (friends, good wine), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 led | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 talking | punct |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hearth | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 hearth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hearth | det |
| 19 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bade | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bade | cc |
| 22 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bade | obj |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bade | xcomp |
| 25 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bring | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 plenty | case |
| 32 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 wine | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wine | det |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wine | amod |
| 36 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 wont | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 wont | cop |
| 39 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wine | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 drunk | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 drunk | aux:pass |
| 42 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 wont | advcl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 seasons | case |
| 44 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 seasons | amod |
| 45 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 drunk | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | friends = friend | Gawain | then | between arms = arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||
| 2 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lead | past | friends = friend not said here | Gawain | the chamber | the hearth parataxis | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chamber=Destination | ||
| 4 | bade | past | friends = friend not said here | friends = friend | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | friends = friend not said here | spices | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spice=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | friends = friend | spices = spice | plenty | with the good wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 7 | is | past | the good wine | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | drink | to-infinitive · passive | the good wine not said here | season | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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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