Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 73
So they held high feast that day and the next, and the third day thereafter, and the joy on S. John’s Day was fair to hearken, for ’twas the last of the feast, and the guests would depart in the grey of the morning.
Who acts: music, joy, guests · What happens: hold, be, hearken, depart · To what, where: high feast, twas, grey
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 (music, joy, guests), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feast | amod |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 next | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 next | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 day | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 15 day | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fair | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fair | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 joy | det |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fair | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 Day | case |
| 22 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 John | compound |
| 23 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Day | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 John | case |
| 25 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 joy | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fair | cop |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hearken | mark |
| 29 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fair | csubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 twas | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 twas | case |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 twas | punct |
| 33 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hearken | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 last | det |
| 35 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 twas | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 feast | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 feast | det |
| 38 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 last | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 depart | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 depart | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 guests | det |
| 42 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 depart | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 depart | aux |
| 44 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 held | advcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 grey | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 grey | det |
| 47 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 depart | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 morning | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 morning | det |
| 50 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 grey | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | music | high feast | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the joy on S. John's Day | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hearken | to-infinitive | twas | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | depart | would | the guests | the grey of the morning | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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