Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 29
Then quickly he sprang to the ground and drew out a bright blade, and waded through the stream to the boar.
Who acts: lord · What happens: spring, draw out, wade · To what, where: ground, bright blade, stream
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), 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 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drew | cc |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 drew | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blade | det |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blade | amod |
| 13 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waded | cc |
| 16 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 stream | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waded | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 boar | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boar | det |
| 22 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | lord | the ground | then | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination | ||
| 2 | draw out | past | lord not said here | a bright blade | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wade | past | lord not said here | the stream | to the boar | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to boar=Destination |
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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