Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 90
Soon they struck on the scent, and the hunt cheered on the hounds who were first to seize it, urging them with shouts.
Who acts: hounds, hunt · What happens: strike, cheer, seize, urge, shout · To what, where: scent, hunt, hounds
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 (hounds, hunt), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 scent | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scent | det |
| 6 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cheered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cheered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hunt | det |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cheered | nsubj |
| 11 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 struck | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 hounds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hounds | det |
| 14 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cheered | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seize | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seize | aux |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 seize | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seize | mark |
| 19 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hounds | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seize | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 urging | punct |
| 22 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cheered | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 urging | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 shouts | case |
| 25 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 urging | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | hounds = hound | the scent | soon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on scent=Location | |||
| 2 | cheer | participle | the hunt | on the hounds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | the hounds | hunt | first property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | urge | gerund | the hunt not said here | hounds = hound | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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