Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 48
He struck at him fiercely but wounded him not, withholding his hand ere it might strike him.
Who acts: knight, hand · What happens: strike, not wound, withhold, ere · To what, where: knight
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, hand), 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 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | obl |
| 5 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 2 struck | advmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wounded | cc |
| 7 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wounded | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wounded | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 withholding | punct |
| 11 | withholding | withhold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wounded | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ere | nsubj |
| 14 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 withholding | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strike | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 strike | aux |
| 17 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ere | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strike | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | knight | at other; fiercely property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not wound | past | knight not said here | knight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | withhold | gerund | knight not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ere | past | knight's hand | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | strike | might | hand | knight | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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