Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
The hounds followed swiftly on their tracks, and hunters, blowing the horn, sped after them with ringing shouts that well-nigh burst the cliffs asunder.
Who acts: hounds, hunters, that · What happens: follow, blow, speed, ring, shout, burst · To what, where: tracks, horn, cliffs asunder · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hounds, hunters, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hounds | det |
| 2 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tracks | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blowing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blowing | cc |
| 10 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blowing | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blowing | punct |
| 12 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 followed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horn | det |
| 14 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blowing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sped | punct |
| 16 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 horn | acl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sped | obl |
| 19 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 21 shouts | mark |
| 20 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 shouts | nsubj |
| 21 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 blowing | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 burst | nsubj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 burst | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 26 burst | advmod |
| 26 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shouts | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cliffs | det |
| 28 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 asunder | compound |
| 29 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burst | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the hounds | hounds's tracks | swiftly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on track=Location | |||
| 2 | blow | gerund | hunters | the horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | speed | participle | the horn not said here | after hounds = hound | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ring | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | burst | past | that | cliffs asunder | nigh, well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=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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