Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 44
The knight, lying in his bed, listened, for though his eyes were shut he might sleep but little, and hearkened every cock that crew.
Who acts: knight, eyes · What happens: lie, listen, be, sleep, hearken · To what, where: bed, cock
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 (knight, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knight | punct |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listened | punct |
| 9 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lying | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shut | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 shut | mark |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 shut | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shut | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shut | cop |
| 16 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 listened | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sleep | aux |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shut | parataxis |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 little | cc |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sleep | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hearkened | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hearkened | cc |
| 24 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lying | conj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 cock | det |
| 26 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hearkened | obj |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 crew | det |
| 28 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hearkened | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | the knight | knight's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | listen | participle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | knight's eyes | shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | might | knight | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hearken | past | the knight not said here | every cock | that crew obj | 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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