Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 38
That he slept soundly I may not say, for the morrow gave him much to think on.
Who acts: That, I, morrow · What happens: sleep, not say, give, think on · To what, where: Sir · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, morrow), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | advcl |
| 4 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 3 slept | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 say | advmod |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 gave | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morrow | det |
| 12 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 think | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gave | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 think | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | That | Sir nsubj; soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | may | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the morrow | Sir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think on speech: other | to-infinitive | the morrow not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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