Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 71
They spake to each other smiling, and all was bliss and good cheer between them.
Who acts: features · What happens: speak, smile, be · To what, where: bliss · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (features), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 spake | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spake | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bliss | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bliss | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 bliss | det |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bliss | cop |
| 11 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cheer | cc |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cheer | amod |
| 14 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bliss | conj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cheer | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | features = feature | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | features = feature not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | all bliss and good cheer between features | good cheer between features conj | 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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