Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 64
Thus the knight went on his way with the one man who should guide him to that dread place where he should receive rueful payment.
Who acts: knight, one man · What happens: go, guide, receive · To what, where: way, knight, dread place, rueful payment
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, one man), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 man | nummod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 guide | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 guide | aux |
| 14 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 guide | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 place | det |
| 18 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | compound |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guide | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 receive | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | rueful | rueful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 payment | amod |
| 25 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the knight | knight's way | with the one man; thus property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | guide | should | the one man | knight | that dread place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | receive | should | knight | rueful payment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=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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