Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 92
So he rode through the rough thicket, right into the dale, and there he halted, for it seemed him wild enough.
Who acts: knight, it · What happens: ride, halt, seem · To what, where: rough thicket, knight
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, it), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thicket | amod |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dale | punct |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 dale | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 dale | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dale | det |
| 12 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 halted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 halted | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 halted | expl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 halted | nsubj |
| 17 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 seemed | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 halted | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seemed | obj |
| 23 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 wild | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | knight | the rough thicket | into the dale | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through thicket=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | halt | past | knight | there | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | knight | wild property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute |
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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