Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 56
Silken was her seat, with a fair canopy over her head, of rich tapestries of Tars, embroidered, and studded with costly gems; fair she was to look upon, with her shining grey eyes, a fairer woman might no man boast himself of having seen.
Who acts: Silken, fair, fairer woman · What happens: be, embroider, stud, shine, boast, have · To what, where: seat, Guinevere
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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silken, fair, fairer woman), 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 | Silken | Silken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seat | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 seat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 canopy | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 canopy | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 canopy | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 canopy | amod |
| 9 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | appos |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 canopy | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tapestries | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tapestries | case |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tapestries | amod |
| 16 | tapestries | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seat | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Tars | case |
| 18 | Tars | Tar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 tapestries | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 embroidered | punct |
| 20 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tapestries | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 studded | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 studded | cc |
| 23 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 embroidered | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 gems | case |
| 25 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gems | amod |
| 26 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 studded | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 look | punct |
| 28 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 look | nsubj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 look | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 look | cop |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 look | mark |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 seat | parataxis |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 look | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 eyes | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 eyes | amod |
| 38 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 eyes | amod |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 look | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 boast | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 woman | det |
| 42 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 woman | amod |
| 43 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 boast | nsubj |
| 44 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 boast | aux |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 46 man | det |
| 46 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 boast | nsubj |
| 47 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 48 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 boast | obj |
| 49 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 50 having | mark |
| 50 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 47 boast | advcl |
| 51 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 having | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Silken | Silken's seat and rich tapestries of Tars | a fair canopy over Silken's head appos; rich tapestries of Tars conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stud | participle | with costly gems | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gem=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | fair | Silken nsubj; Silken's shining grey eyes conj; look property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | boast speech: other | might | a fairer woman | Guinevere | no man nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | have | gerund | a fairer woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | see | participle | a fairer woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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