Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 8
Then with gay talk and merry jest they arose, and stood, and spoke softly, and kissed courteously, and took leave of each other.
Who acts: talk · What happens: arise, stand, speak, kiss, take · To what, where: leave · 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 (talk), 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 | 9 arose | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 talk | case |
| 3 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 talk | amod |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jest | cc |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jest | amod |
| 7 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | conj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 16 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 15 spoke | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kissed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kissed | cc |
| 19 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | conj |
| 20 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 19 kissed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | conj |
| 24 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 leave | nmod |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | talk | then | with gay talk and merry jest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | talk not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | talk not said here | softly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | talk not said here | courteously property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | past | talk not said here | leave of each | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
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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