Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 75
Gawain would bid his host farewell, but the lord took him by the hand, and led him to his own chamber beside the hearth, and there he thanked him for the favour he had shown him in honouring his dwelling at that high season, and gladdening his castle with his fair countenance.
Who acts: Gawain, lord · What happens: bid, take, lead, thank, show, honour · To what, where: host, Gawain, own chamber, lord, favour, castle
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, lord), 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 | 3 bid | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | aux |
| 3 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 host | nmod:poss |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bid | obj |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 3 bid | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lord | det |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 led | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 chamber | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chamber | amod |
| 23 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 hearth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hearth | det |
| 26 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chamber | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thanked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thanked | cc |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 thanked | expl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thanked | nsubj |
| 31 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thanked | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 favour | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 favour | det |
| 35 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thanked | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 shown | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 shown | aux |
| 38 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 favour | acl:relcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 shown | obj |
| 40 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 41 honouring | mark |
| 41 | honouring | honour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 shown | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 dwelling | nsubj |
| 43 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 honouring | conj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 season | case |
| 45 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 season | det |
| 46 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 season | amod |
| 47 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dwelling | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 gladdening | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 gladdening | cc |
| 50 | gladdening | gladden | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 thanked | advcl |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 castle | nmod:poss |
| 52 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 gladdening | obj |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 countenance | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 55 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 countenance | amod |
| 56 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 gladdening | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | would | Gawain | Gawain's host | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | the lord | Gawain | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | the lord not said here | Gawain | Gawain's own chamber beside the hearth | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chamber=Destination | |||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | Gawain | lord | there | for the favour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for favour=Attribute | ||
| 5 | show | past · perfect | Gawain | the favour not said here | lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | honour | gerund | Gawain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | dwell | gerund | Gawain | season | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | gladden | gerund | Gawain not said here | Gawain's castle | with Gawain's fair countenance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent castle=Patient with countenance=Instrument |
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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