Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 49
Gawain abode the stroke, and flinched in no limb, but stood still as a stone or the stump of a tree that is fast rooted in the rocky ground with a hundred roots.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: abide, flinch, stand, root · To what, where: stroke, limb, tree, rocky ground
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 (Gawain), 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 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 abode | nsubj |
| 2 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stroke | det |
| 4 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 abode | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flinched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flinched | cc |
| 7 | flinched | flinch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 abode | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 limb | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 limb | det |
| 10 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flinched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 abode | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 stump | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stump | det |
| 20 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stone | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stump | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 rooted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 rooted | aux:pass |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 rooted | advmod |
| 27 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 tree | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 ground | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ground | det |
| 30 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ground | amod |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rooted | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 roots | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hundred | det |
| 34 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 roots | nummod |
| 35 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ground | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 abode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | past | Gawain | the stroke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flinch | participle | Gawain not said here | no limb | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Gawain not said here | still | as a stone or the stump of a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | root | present · passive | a tree | the rocky ground with hundred roots | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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