Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 37
Then they handled the huge head, and the lord said aloud, “Now, Gawain, this game is your own by sure covenant, as ye right well know.”
Who acts: horns, lord, Gawain, ye · What happens: handle, say, be, know · To what, where: huge head · 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 (horns, lord, Gawain, ye), 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 handled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handled | nsubj |
| 3 | handled | handle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lord | det |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 handled | parataxis |
| 12 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 own | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 own | punct |
| 15 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 Gawain | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Gawain | punct |
| 17 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 own | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Gawain | punct |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 game | det |
| 20 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 own | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 own | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 covenant | case |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 covenant | amod |
| 26 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 own | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 know | mark |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 know | nsubj |
| 30 | right | right | ADV | _ | 32 know | advmod |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 know | advmod |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 handled | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 handled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handle | past | horns = horn | the huge head | then | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lord | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Gawain | by sure covenant; this game nsubj; your nmod:poss; own property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | infinitive | ye | right, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «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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