Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 13
The knights, all arrayed for riding, leapt up lightly, and took their bridles, and each rode his way as pleased him best.
Who acts: each · What happens: array, leapt up, take, ride · To what, where: knights, bridles, way
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 (each), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knights | punct |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 arrayed | advmod |
| 5 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 riding | case |
| 7 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leapt | punct |
| 9 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 arrayed | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 leapt | compound:prt |
| 11 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 9 leapt | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrayed | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bridles | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bridles | bridle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rode | cc |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 rode | nsubj |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rode | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 pleased | case |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rode | obl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 26 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | participle · passive | the knights | for riding; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leapt up | infinitive | lightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | daylight's bridles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | past | each | knight's way | as pleased knight | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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