Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 57
Some came on the scent of a fox, and a hound gave tongue; the huntsmen shouted, and the pack followed in a crowd on the trail.
Who acts: Some, hound, huntsmen · What happens: come, give, shout, follow, scent · To what, where: scent, tongue, pack, crowd, fox
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 (Some, hound, huntsmen), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 scent | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scent | det |
| 5 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fox | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scent | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hound | det |
| 12 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shouted | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 huntsmen | det |
| 17 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shouted | nsubj |
| 18 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 followed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pack | det |
| 22 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shouted | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 crowd | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 crowd | det |
| 26 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 trail | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trail | det |
| 29 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crowd | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Some | the scent of a fox | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on scent=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a hound | tongue | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the huntsmen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | participle · passive | the pack | a crowd on the trail | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in crowd=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | scent | a fox | nom scent «cognition 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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