Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 86
Thus they renewed their bargain before the whole court, and then the night-drink was served, and each courteously took leave of the other and gat him to bed.
Who acts: wis, each · What happens: renew, serve, take, gat, bargain · To what, where: bargain, night drink, leave, chance
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 (wis, each), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 renewed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 renewed | nsubj |
| 3 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 renewed | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 court | amod |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 renewed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 served | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 served | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 served | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drink | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 served | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 served | aux:pass |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 renewed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 took | nsubj |
| 22 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 23 took | advmod |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 renewed | parataxis |
| 24 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 other | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 leave | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gat | cc |
| 29 | gat | gat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 took | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gat | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 bed | case |
| 32 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gat | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 renewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renew | past | wis = wi | wis's bargain | before the whole court | thus property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient | ||
| 2 | serve | past · passive | the night drink | then | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take | past | each | leave of the other | courteously property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 4 | gat | infinitive | each not said here | chance | to bed | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bargain | wis = wi | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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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