Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 68
Sir Gawain was deep in slumber, and in his dream he vexed him much for the destiny that should befall him on the morrow, when he should meet the knight at the Green Chapel, and abide his blow; but when the lady spake he heard her, and came to himself, and roused from his dream and answered swiftly.
Who acts: Sir, destiny, lady spake · What happens: be, vex, befall, meet, abide, hear · To what, where: slumber, network, dream, morrow, knight, Green Chapel
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 (Sir, destiny, lady spake), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deep | cop |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 slumber | case |
| 6 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vexed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 vexed | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dream | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dream | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vexed | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 vexed | nsubj |
| 13 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deep | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 vexed | obj |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 destiny | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 destiny | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 destiny | det |
| 18 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vexed | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 befall | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 befall | aux |
| 21 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 destiny | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 befall | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 morrow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 morrow | det |
| 25 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 befall | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 meet | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 meet | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 meet | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 meet | aux |
| 30 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 vexed | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 knight | det |
| 32 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 Chapel | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Chapel | det |
| 35 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Chapel | amod |
| 36 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 abide | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 abide | cc |
| 39 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 meet | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 blow | nmod:poss |
| 41 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 abide | obj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 came | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 came | cc |
| 44 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 heard | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 spake | det |
| 46 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 spake | compound |
| 47 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 heard | nsubj |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 heard | nsubj |
| 49 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 came | advcl |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 heard | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 came | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 came | cc |
| 53 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deep | parataxis |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 himself | case |
| 55 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 53 came | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 roused | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 roused | cc |
| 58 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 came | parataxis |
| 59 | from | from | ADP | _ | 61 dream | case |
| 60 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 dream | nmod:poss |
| 61 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 roused | obl |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 answered | cc |
| 63 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 roused | conj |
| 64 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 63 answered | advmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sir | slumber | deep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vex | past | Sir | network | Sir's dream | for the destiny | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | befall | should | the destiny | network | the morrow | tree rules | |||
| 4 | meet | should | Sir | the knight | the Green Chapel | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | abide | infinitive | Sir not said here | Sir's blow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | the lady spake | lady | spake = speak nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | come | past | Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | |||||
| 8 | rouse | participle | Sir's dream | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | answer speech: assert | past | swiftly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | dream | Sir | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | blow | Sir | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | dream | Sir | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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