Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 20
Then the trackers gat them to the trysting-place and uncoupled the hounds, and the forest rang again with their gay blasts.
Who acts: trackers, forest, hunters · What happens: gat, tryst, uncouple, ring, blast · To what, where: hunters
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 (trackers, forest, hunters), 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 gat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trackers | det |
| 3 | trackers | tracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gat | nsubj |
| 4 | gat | gat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gat | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 8 | trysting | tryst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 place | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 trysting | punct |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gat | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hounds | cc |
| 12 | uncoupled | uncouple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hounds | amod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hounds | det |
| 14 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 place | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rang | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rang | nsubj |
| 19 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gat | parataxis |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 rang | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blasts | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 blasts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blasts | amod |
| 24 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rang | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gat | present | the trackers | hunters = hunter | then | to the trysting place and the uncoupled hounds | tree rules | ||
| 2 | tryst | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | uncouple | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | ring | past | the forest | again | with hunters's gay blasts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blast=Theme | |||
| 5 | blast | hunters = hunter | nom blast «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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