Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 118
He showed them the wound in the neck which he won for his disloyalty at the hand of the knight, the blood flew to his face for shame as he told the tale.
Who acts: King, blood · What happens: show, win, fly, tell · To what, where: things, neck, hand, tale · 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, blood), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wound | det |
| 5 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neck | det |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 won | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 disloyalty | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 disloyalty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | disloyalty | disloyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 knight | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 knight | det |
| 20 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blood | det |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | nsubj |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 shame | case |
| 29 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 told | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | nsubj |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flew | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tale | det |
| 34 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 told | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | King | things = thing | the neck | the wound obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wound=Topic | ||
| 2 | win | past | the hand of the knight | for King's disloyalty; which nsubj; King nsubj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at hand=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the blood | to King's face result; for shame | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to face=Result | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | King | the tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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