Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 60
But he went, ere he wist, to a chosen tryst, and three started forth on him at once, so he must needs double back, and betake him to the wood again.
Who acts: fox, three · What happens: go, wist, choose, start, need, betake · To what, where: ere, chosen tryst, 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 (fox, three), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ere | punct |
| 5 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wist | nsubj |
| 7 | wist | wist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 5 ere | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tryst | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tryst | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tryst | det |
| 11 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tryst | amod |
| 12 | tryst | tryst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 started | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 started | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 needs | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 needs | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 needs | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 needs | aux |
| 26 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 27 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 needs | xcomp |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 double | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 betake | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 betake | cc |
| 31 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 needs | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 betake | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 wood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wood | det |
| 35 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 betake | obl |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 betake | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fox | ere | a chosen tryst | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tryst=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wist | present | fox | ere not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | start | past | three | on fox; forth property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | need | must | fox | double property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | betake | infinitive | fox not said here | fox | again | to the wood | 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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