Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 56
The hunters scattered them by a forest side, and the rocks rang again with the blast of their horns.
Who acts: hunters, rocks · What happens: scatter, ring, blast · To what, where: Twas, horns
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 (hunters, rocks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scattered | nsubj |
| 3 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scattered | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | compound |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scattered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rang | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rang | nsubj |
| 13 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scattered | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 rang | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blast | det |
| 17 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rang | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 horns | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horns | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blast | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past | the hunters | Twas = twa | by a forest side | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 2 | ring | past | the rocks | again | with the blast of Twas's horns | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blast=Theme | |||
| 3 | blast | Twas's horns | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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