Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 7
They laughed each one, and drank of the wine, and made merry, these lords and ladies, as it pleased them.
Who acts: They · What happens: laugh, drink, make · To what, where: one, lords
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 (They), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drank | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drank | cc |
| 7 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wine | det |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | parataxis |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lords | punct |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 lords | det |
| 17 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ladies | cc |
| 19 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lords | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 pleased | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | They | each one | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | They not said here | of the wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of wine=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | past | this lords and ladies | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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