Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
The sharp blade cut into the flesh so that the blood ran over his shoulder to the ground.
Who acts: sharp blade · What happens: cut, run · To what, where: sharp blade, shoulder
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 (sharp blade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blade | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blade | amod |
| 3 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blade | acl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 flesh | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flesh | det |
| 7 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blood | det |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | participle | the sharp blade not said here | so the blood; into the flesh | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into flesh=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the sharp blade | blade's shoulder | to the ground result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result |
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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