Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 116
King Arthur kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many valiant knights sought to embrace him.
Who acts: King, many valiant knights · What happens: kiss, seek, embrace · To what, where: knight, King
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, many valiant knights), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knight | det |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 queen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 queen | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | conj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 queen | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sought | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knights | amod |
| 14 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knights | amod |
| 15 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sought | nsubj |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 embrace | mark |
| 18 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sought | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 embrace | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | King | the knight | the queen conj | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | seek | past | many valiant knights | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | embrace not said to happen | to-infinitive | many valiant knights not said here | King | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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