Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
Then Sir Gawain arose and called his chamberlain and chose his garments, and when he was ready he gat him forth to Mass, and then went to meat, and made merry all day till the rising of the moon, and never had a knight fairer lodging than had he with those two noble ladies, the elder and the younger.
Who acts: Sir, moon · What happens: arise, call, choose, be, gat, go · To what, where: chamberlain, garments, knight, Mass, meat · 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 (Sir, moon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arose | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 called | cc |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chose | cc |
| 10 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 garments | nmod:poss |
| 12 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chose | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gat | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 ready | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ready | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ready | cop |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gat | parataxis |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gat | nsubj |
| 20 | gat | gat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 arose | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gat | obj |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 gat | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Mass | case |
| 24 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gat | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 went | advmod |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 meat | case |
| 30 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 34 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 made | xcomp |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 rising | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rising | det |
| 39 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 moon | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 moon | det |
| 42 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rising | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 had | cc |
| 45 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 had | advmod |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 knight | det |
| 48 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obj |
| 49 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 had | xcomp |
| 50 | lodging | lodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 had | advcl |
| 51 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 52 had | mark |
| 52 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 lodging | ccomp |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 had | obj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 ladies | case |
| 55 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 58 ladies | det |
| 56 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 58 ladies | nummod |
| 57 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 ladies | amod |
| 58 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 had | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 elder | punct |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 elder | det |
| 61 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 ladies | conj |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 younger | cc |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 younger | det |
| 64 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 58 ladies | conj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Sir | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Sir not said here | Sir's chamberlain | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | choose | past | Sir not said here | Sir's garments | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Sir | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gat | infinitive | Sir | knight | Mass | forth property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | go | past | Sir not said here | meat | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meat=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | make | past | Sir not said here | till the rising of the moon; day | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 8 | not have | past | Sir not said here | a knight | fair property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | |||
| 9 | lodge | gerund | Sir not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | have | past | Sir not said here | knight | with that two noble ladies and the elder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 11 | rise | the moon | nom rising «event intransitive»: of=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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