Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 1
Then he drew in his horse and looked around to seek the chapel, but he saw none and thought it strange.
Who acts: he, horse · What happens: draw, look around, seek, see, think · To what, where: chapel, none
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, horse), 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 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seek | mark |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 looked | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chapel | det |
| 13 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seek | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | obj |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | he | then | in his horse | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look around | past | he not said here | around property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | he not said here | the chapel | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | horse | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | horse not said here | chapel | strange property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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