Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 68
Gawain and the fair lady sat together, even in the midst of the board, when the feast was served; and so throughout all the hall each sat in his degree, and was served in order.
Who acts: Gawain, each · What happens: sit, serve · To what, where: midst, feast, hall, degree
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 (Gawain, each), 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 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lady | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gawain | conj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 sat | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 midst | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 midst | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 board | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 board | det |
| 15 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 midst | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 served | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 served | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 served | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 served | aux:pass |
| 21 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 midst | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 served | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 so | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 served | advmod |
| 25 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 28 hall | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 hall | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hall | det |
| 28 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 so | obl |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sat | nsubj |
| 30 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hall | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 degree | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 degree | nmod:poss |
| 33 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sat | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 served | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 served | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 served | aux:pass |
| 37 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sat | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 order | case |
| 39 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 served | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Gawain and the fair lady | the midst of the board | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | |||
| 2 | serve | past · passive | the feast | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | each | all hall not said here | Gawain's degree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme in degree=Location | |||
| 4 | serve | past · passive | Gawain and the fair lady not said here | in order | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: in order=Attribute |
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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