Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 100
Many a time did he turn to bay and tare the hounds, and they yelped, and howled shrilly.
Who acts: man, hounds · What happens: turn, bay, tare, yelp, howl · To what, where: hounds
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hounds), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bay | mark |
| 8 | bay | bay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 turn | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tare | cc |
| 10 | tare | tare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bay | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hounds | det |
| 12 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tare | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yelped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 yelped | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 yelped | nsubj |
| 16 | yelped | yelp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 howled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 howled | cc |
| 19 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 yelped | conj |
| 20 | shrilly | shrilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 howled | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | man | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bay | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tare | infinitive | man not said here | the hounds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | yelp | past | hounds = hound | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | howl | past | hounds = hound not said here | shrilly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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