Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
Now ye are here and we are alone, my lord and his men are afield; the serving men in their beds, and my maidens also, and the door shut upon us.
Who acts: ye, we, men · What happens: be · To what, where: door
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 (ye, we, men), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 here | advmod |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 alone | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 alone | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 alone | cop |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 here | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lord | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 afield | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 men | nmod:poss |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 afield | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afield | cop |
| 16 | afield | afield | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 here | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 19 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 men | compound |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 here | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 beds | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beds | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 men | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 maidens | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 maidens | cc |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 27 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 here | conj |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 maidens | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shut | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shut | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 here | conj |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 us | case |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 shut | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ye | now | my lord obl; the serving men in ladies's beds nsubj; my maidens conj; here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | we | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | lord's men | afield property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | ye not said here | the door | upon us | tree rules |
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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