Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
He called aloud, and soon there came a porter of kindly countenance, who stood on the wall and greeted this knight and asked his errand.
Who acts: knight, countenance · What happens: call, come, stand, greet, ask · To what, where: porter, wall, knight, errand · 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 (knight, countenance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 came | expl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 porter | det |
| 10 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 countenance | case |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 13 countenance | advmod |
| 13 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 porter | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 countenance | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 greeted | cc |
| 21 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stood | conj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 knight | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 greeted | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 errand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | knight | aloud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a porter of countenance | there | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location porter=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | past | countenance | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | countenance not said here | this knight | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | knight's errand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent errand=Recipient |
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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