Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 60
So they talked of many matters till mid-morn was past, and ever the lady shewed her love to him, and the knight turned her speech aside.
Who acts: honour, mid-morn, lady, knight, servant · What happens: talk, be, shew, turn, love, speak · To what, where: love, knight, speech · 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 (honour, mid-morn, lady, knight), 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 | _ | 3 talked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 matters | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matters | amod |
| 6 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talked | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 past | mark |
| 8 | mid-morn | mid-morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 past | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 past | cop |
| 10 | past | past | ADV | _ | 3 talked | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shewed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shewed | cc |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 shewed | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shewed | nsubj |
| 16 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 love | nmod:poss |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shewed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shewed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knight | det |
| 24 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 speech | nmod:poss |
| 27 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obj |
| 28 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | honour | of many matters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mid-morn | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shew | past | the lady | servant's love | knight | ever | tree rules | ||
| 4 | turn | past | the knight | servant's speech | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speech=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | servant | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | speak | servant | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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