Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 113
Sir Gawain, who had thus won grace of his life, rode through wild ways on Gringalet; oft he lodged in a house, and oft without, and many adventures did he have and came off victor full often, as at this time I cannot relate in tale.
Who acts: Gawain, many adventures, victor, I · What happens: win, ride, lodge, have, come off, not relate · To what, where: grace, oft, wild ways, house, tale
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, many adventures, victor, I), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 won | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 won | aux |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 won | advmod |
| 7 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Gawain | acl:relcl |
| 8 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grace | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gawain | punct |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 ways | case |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ways | amod |
| 16 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rode | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Gringalet | case |
| 18 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ways | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 oft | punct |
| 20 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rode | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lodged | nsubj |
| 22 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 oft | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lodged | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 oft | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 oft | cc |
| 28 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rode | conj |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 oft | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 adventures | amod |
| 33 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rode | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rode | conj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 came | compound:prt |
| 40 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | nsubj |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 victor | amod |
| 42 | often | often | ADV | _ | 38 came | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 relate | punct |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 relate | mark |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 time | case |
| 46 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 time | det |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 relate | obl |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 relate | nsubj |
| 49 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 relate | aux |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 relate | advmod |
| 51 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 came | conj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 tale | case |
| 53 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 relate | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · perfect | Gawain Sir | grace of Sir's life | thus property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ride | past | Gawain Sir | oft | wild ways on Gringalet | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through way=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lodge | past | Gawain | a house | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past · do-support | many adventures | Gawain nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come off | past | victor | often property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not relate | can | I | time | in tale goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in tale=Goal |
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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