Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 34
Combined with other passages—the description of Gawain’s journey, the early morning hunts, the dawning of New Year’s Day, and the ride to the Green Chapel—they indicate a knowledge of Nature, and an observant eye for her moods, uncommon among mediæval poets.
Who acts: early morning, details, Gawain · What happens: combine, hunt, indicate, describe, journey · To what, where: ride, description, knowledge, journey
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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (early morning, details, 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 | Combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 passages | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passages | amod |
| 4 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Combined | obl |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 description | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 description | det |
| 7 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passages | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 9 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Gawain | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 description | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hunts | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 14 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunts | nsubj |
| 16 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 description | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dawning | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dawning | det |
| 19 | dawning | dawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 description | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Day | case |
| 21 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Year | compound |
| 22 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Day | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Year | case |
| 24 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 dawning | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ride | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ride | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ride | det |
| 28 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Combined | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Chapel | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Chapel | det |
| 31 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Chapel | amod |
| 32 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ride | nmod |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 indicate | punct |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 indicate | nsubj |
| 35 | indicate | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Combined | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 knowledge | det |
| 37 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 indicate | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Nature | case |
| 39 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 knowledge | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 eye | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 eye | cc |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 eye | det |
| 43 | observant | observant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 eye | compound |
| 44 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 indicate | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 moods | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 moods | nmod:poss |
| 47 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 eye | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 uncommon | punct |
| 49 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 eye | conj |
| 50 | among | among | ADP | _ | 52 poets | case |
| 51 | mediæval | mediæval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 poets | amod |
| 52 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 uncommon | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Combined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | combine | participle | the ride to the Green Chapel | with other passages and the description of Gawain's journey | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with passage=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | the early morning | the description of Gawain's journey not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme | ||||
| 3 | indicate | present | details = detail | a knowledge of Nature | a observant eye for passage's moods obl | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knowledge=Topic | |||
| 4 | describe | Gawain's journey | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | journey | Gawain | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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