Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 28
With mirth and minstrelsy, and dainties at their will, they made them as merry as a folk well might till ’twas time for them to sever, for at last they must needs betake them to their beds.
Who acts: dainties · What happens: make, sever, betake · To what, where: mirth, needs, last
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 (dainties), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 mirth | case |
| 2 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 minstrelsy | cc |
| 4 | minstrelsy | minstrelsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mirth | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dainties | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dainties | cc |
| 7 | dainties | dainty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mirth | appos |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 will | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 will | nmod:poss |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dainties | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mirth | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 merry | advmod |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 might | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 folk | det |
| 19 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 might | nsubj |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 might | advmod |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 merry | advcl |
| 22 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 till | punct |
| 24 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 time | compound |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 sever | mark |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sever | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sever | mark |
| 29 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 betake | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 betake | mark |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 last | case |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 betake | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 betake | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 betake | aux |
| 36 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 betake | nsubj |
| 37 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sever | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 betake | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 beds | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 beds | nmod:poss |
| 41 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 betake | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | dainties = dainty | mirth | time | with mirth and minstrelsy; merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||
| 2 | sever | to-infinitive | dainties = dainty | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | betake | must | dainties = dainty | needs = need | last | to needs's beds | 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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