Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 8
Then she took her leave of him, and when she was gone Sir Gawain arose, and clad him in rich attire, and took the girdle, and knotted it round him, and hid it beneath his robes.
Who acts: jeopardy, Sir · What happens: take, be, arise, clad, knot, hide · To what, where: leave, Sir, rich attire, girdle, robes
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 (jeopardy, Sir), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nmod:poss |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arose | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | cop |
| 13 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arose | advcl |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 arose | nsubj |
| 15 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sir | flat |
| 16 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clad | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 clad | cc |
| 19 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 clad | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 attire | case |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 attire | amod |
| 23 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clad | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girdle | det |
| 28 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knotted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 knotted | cc |
| 31 | knotted | knot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knotted | obj |
| 33 | round | round | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knotted | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hid | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hid | cc |
| 37 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hid | obj |
| 39 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 41 robes | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 robes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 hid | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | jeopardy | jeopardy's leave of Sir | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | jeopardy | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | Sir | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clad | past | jeopardy not said here | Sir | rich attire | tree rules | |||
| 5 | take | past | jeopardy not said here | the girdle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | knot | past | jeopardy not said here | girdle | round Sir | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 7 | hide | past | jeopardy not said here | girdle | Sir's robes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient beneath robe=Location |
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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