Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 75
Thus with courteous words did he set aside all the special speeches that came from her lips.
Who acts: God, special speeches · What happens: set, come · To what, where: special speeches, lips
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 (God, special speeches), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obl |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 speeches | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 speeches | det |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speeches | amod |
| 12 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 speeches | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 lips | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · do-support | God | all special speeches | with courteous words; aside, thus property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent speech=Patient with word=Instrument | |||
| 2 | come | past | all special speeches | lady's lips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location |
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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