Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 26
What game escaped those that shot was run down at the outer ring.
Who acts: game · What happens: escape, shoot, run down · To what, where: those, outer ring
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 (game), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 run | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 shot | nsubj |
| 6 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux:pass |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 escaped | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 run | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 ring | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 12 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ring | amod |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | what game | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run down | past · passive | those | the outer ring | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme at ring=Trajectory |
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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