Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
It seemed him o’er long ere he saw Sir Gawain in the hall, and he blew a blast on his horn to let all men know that he was come again to take his part in the covenant.
Who acts: It, lord, men · What happens: seem, see, blow, let, know, be · To what, where: lord, Gawain, hall, blast, horn, part · 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 (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obj |
| 4 | o’er | o'er | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blew | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 blew | nsubj |
| 17 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blast | det |
| 19 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blew | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 horn | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horn | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blew | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 let | mark |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 blew | advcl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 men | det |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 let | ccomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 come | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 come | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | cop |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 know | ccomp |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 come | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 take | mark |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 come | advcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 part | nmod:poss |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 covenant | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 covenant | det |
| 39 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | lord | long property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | past | lord | Gawain Sir | the hall | ere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gawain=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | blow | past | lord | a blast | lord's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | |||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | lord not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | present | all men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is | past | lord | again | come property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | lord not said here | lord's part | the covenant | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in covenant=Location |
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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