Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
The ancient dame sat on the high seat, with the lord of the castle beside her.
Who acts: ancient dame · What happens: sit · To what, where: high seat
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 (ancient dame), 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 | 3 dame | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dame | amod |
| 3 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 seat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seat | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seat | amod |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lord | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 lord | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lord | det |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lord | nmod |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 castle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the ancient dame | the high seat | with the lord of the castle beside lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=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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