Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
Then the huntsmen coupled their hounds, unclosed the kennel door, and called them out.
Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: couple, unclos, call out · To what, where: hounds, kennel door
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 (huntsmen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 coupled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsmen | det |
| 3 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coupled | nsubj |
| 4 | coupled | couple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hounds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coupled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unclosed | punct |
| 8 | unclosed | unclos | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 coupled | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 10 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | compound |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unclosed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coupled | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 called | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coupled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | couple | past | the huntsmen | huntsmen's hounds | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Patient | |||
| 2 | unclos | participle | the huntsmen not said here | the kennel door | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | the huntsmen not said here | hounds = hound | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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