Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 62
By that his man was mounted, who bare his spear and lance, and Gawain quoth, “I commend this castle to Christ, may He give it ever good fortune.”
Who acts: man, Gawain, knight, squire · What happens: mount, bare, quoth, commend, give · To what, where: spear, castle
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, Gawain, knight, squire), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | det |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 man | nmod:poss |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mounted | aux:pass |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bare | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bare | nsubj |
| 9 | bare | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mounted | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bare | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lance | cc |
| 13 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spear | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quoth | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quoth | cc |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 quoth | nsubj |
| 17 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mounted | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 commend | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 commend | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 commend | nsubj |
| 21 | commend | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 quoth | conj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commend | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Christ | case |
| 25 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 castle | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 28 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 quoth | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 give | obj |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 good | advmod |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fortune | amod |
| 33 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | squire's man | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bare | past | squire's spear and lance | who nsubj | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | quoth | present | Gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | commend in a quote | present | the knight = knight | this castle | to Christ | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | may | squire | castle | good fortune obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient fortune=Theme |
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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