Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 60
Then he set foot in the stirrup and bestrode his steed, and his squire gave him his shield, which he laid on his shoulder.
Who acts: honour, squire, shield · What happens: set, bestride, give, lay · To what, where: foot, stirrup, steed, shield, honour, shoulder
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 (honour, squire, shield), 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 | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stirrup | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stirrup | det |
| 7 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bestrode | cc |
| 9 | bestrode | bestride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bestrode | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 squire | nmod:poss |
| 15 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shield | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laid | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 laid | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laid | nsubj |
| 23 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shield | acl:relcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 shoulder | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laid | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | honour | foot | the stirrup | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in stirrup=Destination | ||
| 2 | bestride | past | honour not said here | honour's steed | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme steed=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | honour's squire | honour's shield | honour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shield=Theme | |||
| 4 | lay | past | honour's shield | honour's shoulder | honour nsubj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Destination |
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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