Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 15
Ready for the chase, with many of his men, he ate a sop hastily when he had heard Mass, and then with blast of the bugle fared forth to the field.
Who acts: many, lord · What happens: eat, hear, fare, blast · To what, where: sop, Mass, Ready, bugle
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 (many, lord), 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 | Ready | ready | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 chase | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chase | det |
| 4 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ready | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 ate | mark |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ate | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 many | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ate | nsubj |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ready | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sop | det |
| 15 | sop | sop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ate | obj |
| 16 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 13 ate | advmod |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 heard | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | aux |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 ate | conj |
| 21 | Mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fared | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fared | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 fared | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blast | case |
| 26 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fared | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bugle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bugle | det |
| 29 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blast | nmod |
| 30 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ate | conj |
| 31 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 fared | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 field | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 field | det |
| 34 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fared | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | many of lord's men | a sop | lord nsubj; hastily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sop=Patient | |||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | lord | Mass | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fare | past | many of lord's men not said here | then | with blast of the bugle; to the field; forth property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | blast | the bugle | nom blast «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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