Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 35

And when he saw Gawain the lord laughed aloud, and bade them call the ladies and the household together, and he showed them the game, and told them the tale, how they had hunted the wild boar through the woods, and of his length and breadth and height; and Sir Gawain commended his deeds and praised him for his valour, well proven, for so mighty a beast had he never seen before.

Who acts: lord, Sir, beast · What happens: see, laugh, call, show, tell, hunt · To what, where: Gawain, bade, horns, tale, woods, deeds · 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 (lord, Sir, beast), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	8 laughed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 call	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 call	cc
12	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	obl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bade	obj
14	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ladies	det
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 call	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 household	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 household	det
19	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ladies	conj
20	together	together	ADV	_	14 call	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 showed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 showed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 showed	nsubj
24	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 showed	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 game	det
27	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 showed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 told	cc
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tale	det
33	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hunted	punct
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 hunted	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hunted	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hunted	aux
38	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 tale	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boar	det
40	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 boar	amod
41	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunted	obj
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 woods	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 woods	det
44	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hunted	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 length	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 length	cc
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 length	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 length	nmod:poss
49	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 breadth	cc
51	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 length	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 height	cc
53	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 length	conj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 commended	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 Sir	cc
56	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 commended	nsubj
57	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Sir	flat
58	commended	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 deeds	nmod:poss
60	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 commended	obj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 praised	cc
62	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 commended	conj
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 praised	obj
64	for	for	ADP	_	66 valour	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 valour	nmod:poss
66	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 praised	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 proven	punct
68	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	69 proven	advmod
69	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 commended	parataxis
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 mighty	punct
71	for	for	ADP	_	73 mighty	case
72	so	so	ADV	_	73 mighty	advmod
73	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 proven	conj
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 beast	det
75	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 had	nsubj
76	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 mighty	ccomp
77	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 seen	nsubj
78	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	79 seen	advmod
79	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	76 had	xcomp
80	before	before	ADV	_	79 seen	advmod
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	lord	Gawain				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gawain=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	the lord				aloud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	present	lord not said here	bade horns			the ladies and the household obj; together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
4	show	past	lord	horns = horn			the game obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient game=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past	lord not said here	the tale	horns = horn		lord's length and breadth and height parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic
6	hunt	past · perfect · passive		horns = horn		the woods	the wild boar obj	tree rules
7	commend	past	Sir	lord's deeds				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme
8	praise	past	Sir not said here	lord			for lord's valour	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for valour=Attribute
9	prove	participle					well property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
10	have	past	a beast					tree rules
11	not see	participle	lord				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 35

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 35