Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 93
As the rough rocks were ill for riding the huntsmen sprang to earth and hastened on foot, and cast about round the hill and the thicket.
Who acts: rough rocks · What happens: be, ride, spring, hasten, cast about · To what, where: huntsmen, earth, foot
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 (rough rocks), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 ill | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rocks | det |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rocks | amod |
| 4 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ill | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ill | cop |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sprang | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 riding | mark |
| 8 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sprang | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 huntsmen | det |
| 10 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 riding | obj |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hastened | cc |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 earth | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hastened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cast | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cast | cc |
| 20 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sprang | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 cast | advmod |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 hill | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hill | det |
| 24 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cast | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thicket | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thicket | det |
| 27 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hill | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rough rocks | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | the huntsmen | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spring | past | earth | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination | |||||
| 4 | hasten | participle | foot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | cast about | present | round the hill and the thicket; about property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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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