Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 32
Then was there loud blowing of horns and baying of hounds, the huntsmen smote off the boar’s head, and hung the carcase by the four feet to a stout pole, and so went on their way homewards.
Who acts: loud blowing · What happens: be, bay, smite, hang, go, blow · To what, where: carcase, way homewards, 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud blowing), 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 | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 smote | advmod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blowing | amod |
| 5 | blowing | blowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smote | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horns | case |
| 7 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blowing | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 baying | cc |
| 9 | baying | bay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 horns | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hounds | case |
| 11 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 baying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 huntsmen | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 huntsmen | det |
| 14 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horns | conj |
| 15 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boar | det |
| 18 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 boar | case |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smote | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hung | cc |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smote | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 carcase | det |
| 25 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 feet | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feet | det |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 feet | nummod |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hung | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 pole | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pole | det |
| 32 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pole | amod |
| 33 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smote | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 homewards | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 homewards | compound |
| 41 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bay | gerund | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen not said here | of hounds | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | smite | past | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen | off the boar's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen not said here | the carcase | by the four feet; to a stout pole result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent carcase=Patient to pole=Result | |||
| 5 | go | past | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen not said here | hounds's way homewards | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on homeward=Location | ||||
| 6 | blow | horns and the huntsmen | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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