Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 115
Then joy awakened in that dwelling when the king knew that the good Sir Gawain was come, for he deemed it gain.
Who acts: king, Gawain · What happens: awaken, dwell, know, come, deem · To what, where: joy, good Gawain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, Gawain), 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 | 2 joy | advmod |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 joy | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 awakened | obl |
| 6 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 that | acl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 knew | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dwelling | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gawain | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Gawain | amod |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux:pass |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 deemed | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 deemed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deemed | nsubj |
| 21 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deemed | obj |
| 23 | gain | again | ADV | _ | 21 deemed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | participle | joy not said here | joy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in that=Location | ||||
| 2 | dwell | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past · passive | the good Gawain Sir | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | deem | past | Gawain | joy | again | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=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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