Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
[8] He and his nobles were to horse ere daylight glimmered upon the earth.
Who acts: nobles, lord · What happens: be, glimmer · To what, where: horse ere daylight, 8, earth
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 (nobles, 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 glimmered | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glimmered | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 daylight | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 daylight | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 daylight | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 daylight | mark |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daylight | compound |
| 11 | ere | ere | X | _ | 12 daylight | compound |
| 12 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 He | conj |
| 13 | glimmered | glimmer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glimmered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 glimmered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lord's nobles | horse ere daylight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glimmer | past | lord | 8 | the earth | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
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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