Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 99
_” and blew the horns to urge on the hounds, and rode swiftly after the boar.
What happens: blow, urge, ride · To what, where: horns
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 blew | cc |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horns | det |
| 6 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 urge | mark |
| 8 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blew | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hounds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hounds | det |
| 11 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 urge | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | conj |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 rode | advmod |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 boar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boar | det |
| 18 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | past | the horns | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||||
| 2 | urge in a quote | to-infinitive | on the hounds | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | past | after the boar | swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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