Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
After Mass he and his men ate a morsel, and he asked for his steed; all the knights who should ride with him were already mounted before the hall gates.
Who acts: lord, knights · What happens: eat, ask, ride, mount · To what, where: morsel, knights, hall gates
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, knights), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 Mass | case |
| 2 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ate | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 men | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 he | conj |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 morsel | det |
| 9 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ate | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 steed | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 steed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 mounted | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 knights | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 knights | det |
| 20 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ride | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 ride | aux |
| 23 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 knights | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ride | obl |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 mounted | aux:pass |
| 27 | already | already | ADV | _ | 28 mounted | advmod |
| 28 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ate | conj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 gates | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gates | det |
| 31 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gates | compound |
| 32 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mounted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | lord | a morsel | after Mass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | lord | for lord's steed | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ride | should | all knights | with lord | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mount | past · passive | all knights | the hall gates | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before gate=Destination |
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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