Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
By the time the cock had crowed thrice the lord of the castle had left his bed; Mass was sung and meat fitly served.
Who acts: lord, meat · What happens: crow, leave, sing, serve · To what, where: cock, bed, Mass
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, meat), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crowed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cock | det |
| 5 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crowed | aux |
| 7 | crowed | crow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | thrice | thrice | ADP | _ | 10 lord | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lord | det |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crowed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 lord | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sung | punct |
| 19 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sung | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sung | aux:pass |
| 21 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crowed | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 served | cc |
| 23 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 served | nsubj |
| 24 | fitly | fitly | ADV | _ | 25 served | advmod |
| 25 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sung | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | past · perfect · passive | the cock | time | thrice the lord | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | the lord not said here | lord's bed | of the castle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme bed=Source of castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · passive | Mass | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | serve | past | meat | fitly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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