Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 89
The folk were forth to the wood ere the day broke, with hound and horn they rode over the plain, and uncoupled their dogs among the thorns.
Who acts: folk, day, hounds · What happens: be, ere, break, ride, uncouple · To what, where: hound, horn, plain, dogs
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 (folk, day, hounds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 folk | det |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forth | cop |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 ere | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ere | obl |
| 8 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ere | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hound | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hound | case |
| 14 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horn | cc |
| 16 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hound | conj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 horn | acl:relcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 plain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plain | det |
| 21 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 uncoupled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 uncoupled | cc |
| 24 | uncoupled | uncouple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 broke | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 uncoupled | obj |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 29 thorns | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thorns | det |
| 29 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 uncoupled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the folk | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ere | past | to the wood | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | break | past | the day | hound and horn | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | hounds = hound | horn not said here | the plain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horn=Theme over plain=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | uncouple | participle | the day not said here | hounds's dogs | among the thorns | tree rules |
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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