Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 89
The knights wore it on the left shoulder till they had done some gallant deed, or till some noble lady took it off for them.
Who acts: knights · What happens: wear, do, take off · To what, where: lace, left shoulder, gallant deed
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 (knights), 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 | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wore | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoulder | det |
| 7 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoulder | compound |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wore | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 deed | det |
| 14 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deed | amod |
| 15 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 lady | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 lady | det |
| 20 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wore | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the knights | lace | the left shoulder | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | knights = knight | some gallant deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | the knights not said here | lace | till some noble lady | for knights = knight | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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