Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
Each man that he met he thanked him for his service and his solace, and the pains he had been at to do his will; and each found it as hard to part from the knight as if he had ever dwelt with him.
Who acts: man, pains, each, honour · What happens: meet, thank, be, find, dwell, service · To what, where: man, honour, solace
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 (man, pains, each, honour), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 met | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thanked | nsubj |
| 7 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thanked | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 service | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 service | nmod:poss |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 solace | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 solace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 service | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pains | det |
| 18 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 do | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 do | cop |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 do | case |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thanked | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 will | nmod:poss |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | advcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thanked | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 hard | advmod |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 part | amod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 part | mark |
| 35 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 knight | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 knight | det |
| 38 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 part | nmod |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 dwelt | mark |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 dwelt | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 dwelt | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 dwelt | aux |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 dwelt | advmod |
| 44 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 found | advcl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 dwelt | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | man | each man not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | each man | honour | for honour's service and honour's solace | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for service=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | the pains | honour nsubj; do property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | past | each | solace | hard part obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme part=Attribute | |||
| 5 | dwell | past · perfect | honour | ever | with man | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | |||
| 6 | service | honour | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | solace | honour | nom solace «feeling 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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