Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 35
Then the Green Knight made him ready, and grasped his grim weapon to smite Gawain.
Who acts: Green Knight · What happens: make, grasp, smite · To what, where: Sir, grim weapon, Gawain
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 (Green Knight), 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 | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Knight | det |
| 3 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Knight | amod |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grasped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grasped | cc |
| 10 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weapon | amod |
| 13 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grasped | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 smite | mark |
| 15 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grasped | advcl |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 smite | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Green Knight | Sir | then | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | ||
| 2 | grasp | past | the Green Knight not said here | Sir's grim weapon | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weapon=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | smite | to-infinitive | the Green Knight not said here | Gawain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gawain=Experiencer |
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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