Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 2
Then he saw as it were a mound on a level space of land by a bank beside the stream where it ran swiftly, the water bubbled within as if boiling.
Who acts: horse, chapel, water · What happens: see, be, run, bubble · To what, where: stream, level space
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 (horse, chapel, water), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 mound | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mound | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mound | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mound | det |
| 8 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 space | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 space | det |
| 11 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 space | compound |
| 12 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mound | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 space | nmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 bank | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bank | det |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 ran | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stream | acl:relcl |
| 24 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bubbled | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bubbled | nsubj |
| 28 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 29 | within | within | ADP | _ | 32 boiling | case |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 boiling | case |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 boiling | mark |
| 32 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bubbled | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | horse | the stream | then | by a bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | is | past | chapel | a level space of land | as a mound | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | past | chapel | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bubble | past | the water | within boiling | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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