Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 18
They blew three blasts gaily on the bugles, the hounds bayed fiercely, and they that would go a-hunting checked and chastised them.
Who acts: huntsmen, hounds · What happens: blow, bay, go, check, chastise · To what, where: bugles, hunting, huntsmen
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, hounds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 blasts | nummod |
| 4 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gaily | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blew | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bugles | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bugles | det |
| 8 | bugles | bugle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bayed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hounds | det |
| 11 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bayed | nsubj |
| 12 | bayed | bay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 13 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 12 bayed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 blew | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hunting | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 a | punct |
| 22 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obj |
| 23 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 go | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chastised | cc |
| 25 | chastised | chastise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 chastised | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | huntsmen = huntsman | the bugles | gaily property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | bay | past | the hounds | fiercely property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | would | huntsmen = huntsman | a hunting | that nsubj | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme | |||
| 4 | check | participle | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | chastise | past | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | huntsmen = huntsman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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