Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
And ever the lord of the land chased the hinds through holt and heath till eventide, and then with much blowing of bugles and baying of hounds they bore the game homeward; and by the time daylight was done all the folk had returned to that fair castle.
Who acts: lord, hinds, time daylight · What happens: chase, bay, bear, do, return, blow · To what, where: hinds, holt, game homeward, folk, fair castle, bugles
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, hinds, time daylight), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chased | cc |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 lord | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lord | det |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chased | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lord | nmod |
| 8 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hinds | det |
| 10 | hinds | hind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chased | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 holt | case |
| 12 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chased | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heath | cc |
| 14 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holt | conj |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 eventide | case |
| 16 | eventide | eventide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heath | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blowing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blowing | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 blowing | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blowing | case |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blowing | amod |
| 22 | blowing | blowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chased | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bugles | case |
| 24 | bugles | bugle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blowing | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 baying | cc |
| 26 | baying | bay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 blowing | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hounds | case |
| 28 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 baying | obl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bore | nsubj |
| 30 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hounds | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 homeward | det |
| 32 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 homeward | compound |
| 33 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bore | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 done | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 done | cc |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 daylight | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 daylight | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 daylight | compound |
| 39 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 done | obl |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 done | aux:pass |
| 41 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chased | parataxis |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 folk | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 folk | det |
| 44 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 returned | aux |
| 46 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 done | parataxis |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 castle | case |
| 48 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 castle | det |
| 49 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 castle | amod |
| 50 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 returned | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | the lord of the land | the hinds | holt and heath till eventide | much blowing of bugles parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hind=Theme through holt=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | bay | gerund | the lord of the land not said here | of hounds | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | past | hinds = hind | the game homeward | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | the time daylight | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | return | past · perfect · passive | all folk | that fair castle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to castle=Destination | ||||
| 6 | blow | bugles | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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