Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 111
Gawain on his steed rode swiftly to the king’s hall, and the Green Knight got him whithersoever he would.
Who acts: Gawain, Green Knight · What happens: ride, get · To what, where: hall, Gawain
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 (Gawain, Green Knight), 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 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 steed | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 steed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gawain | nmod |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hall | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Knight | det |
| 15 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Knight | amod |
| 16 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | obj |
| 19 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 would | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Gawain on Gawain's steed | the king's hall | swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get | past | the Green Knight | Gawain | whithersoever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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