Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
Then the lord took him, and set him beside him, and bade the ladies be fetched for their greater pleasure, tho’ between themselves they had solace.
Who acts: lord, friends · What happens: take, set, fetch, have, please · To what, where: knight, bade, solace
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 (lord, friends), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fetched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fetched | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ladies | det |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fetched | aux:pass |
| 18 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 pleasure | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 pleasure | amod |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fetched | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tho | punct |
| 24 | tho | tho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pleasure | appos |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 tho | punct |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 themselves | case |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 pleasure | nmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleasure | parataxis |
| 30 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the lord | knight | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the lord not said here | knight | beside lord | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme beside he=Destination | |||
| 3 | fetch | infinitive · passive | bade | for friends's greater pleasure between friends; the ladies nsubj:pass | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme for pleasure=Source | ||||
| 4 | have | past | friends = friend | solace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solace=Patient | ||||
| 5 | please | friends = friend | between friends = friend | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent between=obl |
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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