Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 104
So did the hunters this day, while Sir Gawain lay in his bed lapped in rich gear; and the lady forgat not to salute him, for early was she at his side, to cheer his mood.
Who acts: Sir, lady forgat, forgat · What happens: do, lie, lap, not salute, be, cheer · To what, where: hunters, Sir, side, mood
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 (Sir, lady forgat, forgat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunters | det |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 lay | mark |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | flat |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lapped | obl |
| 15 | lapped | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gear | case |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gear | amod |
| 18 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lapped | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 salute | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 salute | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forgat | det |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forgat | compound |
| 23 | forgat | forgat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 salute | nsubj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 salute | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 salute | mark |
| 26 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 salute | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 side | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 side | mark |
| 30 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 side | advmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 side | cop |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 side | nsubj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 side | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 side | nmod:poss |
| 35 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 salute | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cheer | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 cheer | mark |
| 38 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 salute | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mood | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cheer | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the hunters | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Sir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lap | past | Sir not said here | in rich gear; in Sir's bed | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bed=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not salute | to-infinitive | the lady forgat | Sir | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | past | forgat | Sir's side | Sir nmod:poss; early property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | cheer | to-infinitive | the lady forgat not said here | Sir's mood | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mood=Experiencer |
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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