Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 5
Then the king comforted the knight, and the court laughed loudly at the tale, and all made accord that the lords and the ladies who belonged to the Round Table, each hero among them, should wear bound about him a baldric of bright green[11] for the sake of Sir Gawain.
Who acts: king, court, ladies, lords · What happens: comfort, laugh, make, belong, wear · To what, where: knight, tale, made accord
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 (king, court, ladies, lords), 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 | 4 comforted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | nsubj |
| 4 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laughed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | nsubj |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 comforted | conj |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 laughed | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 tale | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 accord | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 accord | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 accord | det |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 accord | amod |
| 20 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 wear | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lords | det |
| 23 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 wear | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ladies | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ladies | det |
| 26 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lords | conj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 belonged | nsubj |
| 28 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Table | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Table | det |
| 31 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Table | compound |
| 32 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 belonged | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hero | punct |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 hero | det |
| 35 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Table | appos |
| 36 | among | among | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hero | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lords | punct |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 wear | aux |
| 40 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 accord | acl |
| 41 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 wear | xcomp |
| 42 | about | about | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 bound | obl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 baldric | det |
| 45 | baldric | baldric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bound | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 11 | case |
| 47 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 11 | amod |
| 48 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 11 | amod |
| 49 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 50 11 | punct |
| 50 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 baldric | nmod |
| 51 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 50 11 | punct |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 sake | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 sake | det |
| 54 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 11 | nmod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Sir | case |
| 56 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 sake | nmod |
| 57 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Sir | flat |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | the king | the knight | then | all made accord obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus knight=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | laugh | past | the court | the tale | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | belong | past | the ladies | to the Round Table | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wear | should | the lords and the ladies | all made accord not said here | bound property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent accord=Source |
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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