Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 96
Grunting, he cast many to the ground, and fled forth at his best speed, without more mischief.
Who acts: knight · What happens: grunt, cast, flee · To what, where: many, best speed
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 (knight), 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 | Grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cast | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grunting | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cast | nsubj |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cast | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 many | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fled | cc |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 fled | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 speed | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 speed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 speed | amod |
| 16 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mischief | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 mischief | case |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 mischief | amod |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fled | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | gerund | knight not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cast | past | knight | many to the ground | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Product | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | knight not said here | knight's best speed | more mischief conj; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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