Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 30
So the lord roamed the woods, and Gawain, that good knight, lay ever a-bed, curtained about, under the costly coverlet, while the daylight gleamed on the walls.
Who acts: lord, Gawain · What happens: roam, lay, curtain, gleam · To what, where: woods, bed, daylight, costly coverlet, walls
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 (lord, Gawain), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 roamed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roamed | nsubj |
| 4 | roamed | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 roamed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 9 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knight | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 knight | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knight | amod |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Gawain | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gawain | punct |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 roamed | parataxis |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 lay | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bed | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 curtained | punct |
| 21 | curtained | curtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lay | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 curtained | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 coverlet | punct |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 coverlet | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 coverlet | det |
| 26 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 coverlet | amod |
| 27 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 curtained | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 daylight | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 daylight | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 daylight | det |
| 31 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 curtained | obl |
| 32 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 daylight | acl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 walls | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 walls | det |
| 35 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 gleamed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 roamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | past | the lord | the woods | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | Gawain | a bed | ever | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Result | |||
| 3 | curtain | participle | Gawain not said here | the daylight | the costly coverlet | about property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under coverlet=Location | ||
| 4 | gleam | participle | the daylight not said here | the walls | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location |
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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