Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 102
But when the boar felt the stroke of the arrows he waxed mad with rage, and turned on the hunters and tare many, so that, affrighted, they fled before him.
Who acts: boar, arrows · What happens: feel, wax, turn, affright, flee, stroke · To what, where: stroke, arrows, many, hunters, that
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 (boar, arrows), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 felt | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 felt | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boar | det |
| 4 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stroke | det |
| 7 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 arrows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrows | det |
| 10 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stroke | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waxed | nsubj |
| 12 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrows | acl:relcl |
| 13 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 waxed | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 rage | case |
| 15 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mad | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 hunters | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hunters | det |
| 21 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tare | cc |
| 23 | tare | tare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hunters | conj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 turned | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 affrighted | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 affrighted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 that | punct |
| 29 | affrighted | affright | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 turned | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fled | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fled | nsubj |
| 32 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 affrighted | conj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the boar | the stroke of the arrows | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wax | past | boar | the arrows not said here | mad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arrow=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | the boar not said here | many | the hunters and tare | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent many=Theme | |||
| 4 | affright | participle · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | flee | past | arrows = arrow | before boar | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stroke | the arrows | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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