Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
The head they bore before the lord himself, who had slain the beast at the ford by force of his strong hand.
Who acts: hounds, lord · What happens: bore, slay · To what, where: head, beast, ford
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 (hounds, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bore | nsubj |
| 4 | bore | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 lord | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lord | det |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | obl |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 lord | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slain | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 slain | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 slain | aux |
| 12 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lord | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beast | det |
| 14 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 ford | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ford | det |
| 17 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 force | case |
| 19 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hand | amod |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 force | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | present | hounds = hound | the head | before the lord lord | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent before lord=Location | |||
| 2 | slay | past · perfect | the lord lord | the beast | the ford | by force of lord's strong hand | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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