Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 42
Then they set up the tables on trestles, and covered them with fair cloths, and lit waxen tapers on the walls.
Who acts: Giles · What happens: set up, cover, lit · To what, where: tables, trestles, Giles, waxen tapers, walls
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 (Giles), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tables | det |
| 6 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 trestles | case |
| 8 | trestles | trestle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 covered | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cloths | case |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloths | amod |
| 15 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lit | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lit | cc |
| 18 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 set | parataxis |
| 19 | waxen | waxen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tapers | amod |
| 20 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lit | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 walls | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 walls | det |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tapers | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past | Giles = gil | the tables | trestles | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme on trestle=Destination | ||
| 2 | cover | past | Giles = gil | with fair cloths | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with cloth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lit | participle | waxen tapers | the walls | tree rules |
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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