Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 68
Rugged and dangerous was the way through the woods, till it was time for the sun-rising.
Who acts: stream, sun · What happens: be, rise · To what, where: Rugged way, woods
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 (stream, sun), 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 | Rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dangerous | cc |
| 3 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Rugged | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 woods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woods | det |
| 9 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | conj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 rising | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rising | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sun | punct |
| 19 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 time | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Rugged way and time | the woods | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | stream | till time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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