Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 70
But Gawain and that fair lady had much joy of each other’s company through her sweet words and courteous converse.
Who acts: Gawain, lady · What happens: have, joy, word · To what, where: much joy, sweet words, company
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lady | cc |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gawain | conj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 joy | amod |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 company | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 company | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 other | case |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joy | nmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 words | amod |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 converse | cc |
| 20 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 converse | amod |
| 21 | converse | converse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 words | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Gawain and that fair lady | much joy of each other's company | lady's sweet words and courteous converse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | |||
| 2 | joy | each other's company | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | word | lady | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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