Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
But the lord on a swift steed pursued him, blowing his bugle; as a gallant knight he rode through the woodland chasing the boar till the sun grew low.
Who acts: lord, many, woodland, sun · What happens: pursue, blow, ride, chase, grow · To what, where: many, bugle, woodland, boar
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 (lord, many, woodland, sun), 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 | _ | 8 pursued | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pursued | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 steed | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 steed | det |
| 6 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 steed | amod |
| 7 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | nmod |
| 8 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pursued | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blowing | punct |
| 11 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 pursued | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bugle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blowing | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 rode | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 knight | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knight | det |
| 17 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knight | amod |
| 18 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rode | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rode | nsubj |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pursued | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 woodland | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woodland | det |
| 23 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rode | obl |
| 24 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 woodland | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boar | det |
| 26 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chasing | obj |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 grew | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sun | det |
| 29 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grew | nsubj |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rode | advcl |
| 31 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grew | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the lord on a swift steed | many | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | the lord on a swift steed not said here | many's bugle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bugle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | many | the woodland | as a gallant knight | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through woodland=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | chase | gerund | the woodland not said here | the boar | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | the sun | low property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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