Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 70
He comes to a castle, the lord of which goes out hunting, leaving his wife in the care of the Great Fool, who is to allow no man to enter.
Who acts: hero, lord, Great Fool · What happens: come, go out, leave, be, enter, care · To what, where: castle, hunting, wife, care
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 (hero, lord, Great Fool), 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 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lord | det |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lord | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 goes | compound:prt |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 comes | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 care | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 care | det |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Fool | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fool | det |
| 23 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Fool | amod |
| 24 | Fool | Fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 care | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 allow | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 allow | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 allow | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 allow | mark |
| 29 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Fool | parataxis |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 allow | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 enter | mark |
| 33 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 man | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | hero | a castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go out | present | the lord | hunting | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | hero not said here | hero's wife | the care of the Great Fool | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme in care=Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | the Great Fool | no man obj; allow property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | the Great Fool not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | care | the Great Fool | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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