Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 74
Therefore they awoke early, and drank wine, and danced fair carols, and at last, when it was late, each man took his leave to wend early on his way.
Who acts: music, wine, man · What happens: awake, drink, dance, be, take, wend · To what, where: wine, fair carols, last, leave, way
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, wine, man), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drank | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drank | cc |
| 7 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 danced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 danced | cc |
| 11 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carols | amod |
| 13 | carols | carol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 danced | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 late | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 late | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 late | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 last | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 late | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 late | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 late | cop |
| 22 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 danced | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 leave | nmod:poss |
| 28 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wend | mark |
| 30 | wend | wend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 took | advcl |
| 31 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 wend | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 way | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wend | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | music | early, therefore property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | music not said here | wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | music not said here | fair carols | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wine | last | late property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | take | past | each man | feast's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wend | to-infinitive | each man not said here | feast's way | early property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory |
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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