Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 24
Then the knight arose and went forth to Mass, and afterward dinner was served, and he sat and spake with the ladies all day.
Who acts: knight · What happens: arise, go, serve, sit, speak · To what, where: Mass · Speech: someone speaks here
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 6. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Mass | case |
| 9 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 served | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 served | cc |
| 12 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 served | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 served | aux:pass |
| 15 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arose | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spake | cc |
| 21 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sat | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 ladies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ladies | det |
| 24 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spake | obl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spake | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the knight | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the knight not said here | Mass | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mass=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | serve | past · passive | the knight not said here | afterward dinner | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute» | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | knight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | infinitive | knight not said here | day | with the ladies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lady=Co-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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