Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 92
The huntsmen followed hard after with shouting and blasts of the horn; and the hounds drew together to a thicket betwixt the water and a high crag in the cliff beneath the hillside.
Who acts: huntsmen, hounds · What happens: follow, draw together, blast · To what, where: thicket, horn
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 (huntsmen, 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 huntsmen | det |
| 2 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 followed | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 shouting | case |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 shouting | case |
| 7 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blasts | cc |
| 9 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shouting | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horn | det |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blasts | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hounds | det |
| 16 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 thicket | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thicket | det |
| 21 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obl |
| 22 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 water | amod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thicket | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 crag | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 crag | det |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 crag | amod |
| 28 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thicket | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cliff | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cliff | det |
| 31 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crag | nmod |
| 32 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 34 hillside | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hillside | det |
| 34 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cliff | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the huntsmen | after shouting and blasts of the horn | hard property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after shouting=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw together | past | the hounds | a thicket the betwixt water and a high crag in the cliff beneath the hillside | together property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to thicket=Destination | |||
| 3 | blast | the horn | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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