Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 15
Twas the merriest meeting that ever men heard, the clamour that was raised at the death of the fox.
Who acts: men, fox · What happens: hear, raise, die · To what, where: merriest meeting, clamour, death, Twas
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, fox), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meeting | det |
| 3 | merriest | merry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 meeting | amod |
| 4 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twas | appos |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 heard | obj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meeting | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clamour | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clamour | det |
| 11 | clamour | clamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | aux:pass |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 clamour | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fox | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fox | det |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 death | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | men | the merriest meeting | ever | the clamour obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | raise | past · passive | the clamour | the death of the fox | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at death=Destination | ||||
| 4 | die | the fox | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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