Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 56
Then was Gringalet ready, that was great and strong, and had been well cared for and tended in every wise; in fair condition was that proud steed, and fit for a journey.
Who acts: that, proud steed · What happens: be, care, tend, fit · To what, where: wise, proud steed, fair condition
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, proud steed), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 3 | Gringalet | gringalet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ready | amod |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 great | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 great | cop |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ready | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strong | cc |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 great | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cared | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cared | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 cared | aux:pass |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 cared | advmod |
| 16 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cared | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tended | cc |
| 19 | tended | tend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cared | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wise | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 wise | det |
| 22 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tended | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 steed | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 condition | case |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 condition | amod |
| 26 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steed | obl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 steed | cop |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 steed | mark |
| 29 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 steed | amod |
| 30 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fit | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fit | cc |
| 33 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 steed | acl:relcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 journey | det |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fit | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | care | past · perfect · passive | well property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | tend | participle | every wise | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | proud steed | fair condition | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fit | present | proud steed not said here | for a journey | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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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