Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
When he came to the water he would not wade it, but sprang over with the pole of his axe, and strode boldly over the brent that was white with snow.
Who acts: knight, brent · What happens: come, not wade, spring over, stride, be · To what, where: water, brent
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 (knight, brent), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sprang | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wade | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wade | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wade | advmod |
| 10 | wade | wade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wade | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprang | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sprang | cc |
| 14 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 sprang | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pole | det |
| 18 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprang | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 axe | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 axe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pole | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 strode | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 strode | cc |
| 24 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sprang | conj |
| 25 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 strode | advmod |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 brent | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 brent | det |
| 28 | brent | brent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strode | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 white | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 white | cop |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brent | acl:relcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 snow | case |
| 33 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 white | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | knight | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not wade | would | knight | water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | spring over | past | with the pole of knight's axe; over property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stride | past | the brent | boldly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over brent=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the brent | with snow; white property | tree rules |
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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