Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

As the deer fled under the boughs a broad whistling shaft smote and wounded each sorely, so that, wounded and bleeding, they fell dying on the banks.

Who acts: deer · What happens: flee, wound, bleed, fall, die · To what, where: broad shaft smote, boughs, each, banks

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 (deer), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 fled	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deer	det
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fled	nsubj
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fell	advcl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 boughs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boughs	det
7	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fled	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 smote	det
9	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 smote	amod
10	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaft	compound
11	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smote	compound
12	smote	smote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wounded	cc
14	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fled	conj
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 wounded	obj
16	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	14 wounded	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wounded	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 wounded	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wounded	punct
21	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wounded	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bleeding	cc
23	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 wounded	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fled	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 fell	xcomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 banks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 banks	det
30	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the deer	a broad shaft smote	the boughs		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smote=Initial_Location
2	wound	past	the deer not said here	each		sorely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus each=Experiencer
3	bleed	gerund	the deer not said here				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	fall	past	deer				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	die	gerund	deer not said here		the banks		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 24