Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 67
The streams foamed and bubbled between their banks, dashing sparkling on the shores where they shelved downwards.
Who acts: streams, Twas · What happens: foam, bubble, dash, sparkle, shelve · To what, where: banks, shores
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 (streams, Twas), 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 streams | det |
| 2 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 foamed | nsubj |
| 3 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bubbled | cc |
| 5 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 foamed | conj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 banks | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 banks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bubbled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dashing | punct |
| 10 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bubbled | advcl |
| 11 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dashing | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shores | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shores | det |
| 14 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sparkling | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 shelved | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shelved | nsubj |
| 17 | shelved | shelve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shores | acl:relcl |
| 18 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 17 shelved | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 foamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foam | past | the streams | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bubble | past | the streams not said here | Twas's banks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between bank=Location | ||||
| 3 | dash | gerund | the streams not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sparkle | gerund | the streams not said here | the shores | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | ||||
| 5 | shelve | past | Twas = twa | downwards property | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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