Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 28
At length the lord himself came up, and saw the beast at bay, and the men standing aloof.
Who acts: lord, men · What happens: come up, see, stand · To what, where: length, beast, bay
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 (lord, men), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lord | det |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 lord | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bay | case |
| 14 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 standing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 standing | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 standing | nsubj |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 20 | aloof | aloof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 standing | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the lord lord | length | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the lord lord not said here | the beast | bay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the men | aloof property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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