Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 106
She came to the bedside and looked on the knight, and Gawain gave her fit greeting, and she greeted him again with ready words, and sat her by his side and laughed, and with a sweet look she spoke to him:
Who acts: sun, Gawain · What happens: come, look, give, greet, sit, laugh · To what, where: bedside, fit greeting, Gawain, sun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun, Gawain), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bedside | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bedside | det |
| 5 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 knight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 greeting | amod |
| 17 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 greeted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 greeted | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 greeted | nsubj |
| 21 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 greeted | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 greeted | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 words | case |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 greeted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sat | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sat | cc |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sat | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 laughed | cc |
| 35 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sat | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 spoke | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 spoke | cc |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 look | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 look | det |
| 40 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 look | amod |
| 41 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 spoke | obl |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 spoke | nsubj |
| 43 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 spoke | obl |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | sun | the bedside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | sun not said here | on the knight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on knight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Gawain | sun's fit greeting | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | sun | Gawain | again | with ready words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 5 | sit | past | sun | by Gawain's side | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 6 | laugh | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past | sun | Gawain | with a sweet look | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||
| 8 | greet | sun | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=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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