Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 10
All the trappings of his steed were of metal of like enamel, even the stirrups that he stood in stained of the same, and stirrups and saddle-bow alike gleamed and shone with green stones.
Who acts: trappings, stirrups · What happens: be, stand, stain, gleam, shine
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trappings, stirrups), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 trappings | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trappings | det |
| 3 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 metal | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 steed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 steed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trappings | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 metal | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 metal | case |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 enamel | case |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 enamel | case |
| 12 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 metal | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stirrups | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 stirrups | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stirrups | det |
| 16 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 metal | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stirrups | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 stained | mark |
| 21 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stood | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 same | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 same | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stained | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gleamed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gleamed | cc |
| 27 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gleamed | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bow | cc |
| 29 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bow | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 saddle | punct |
| 31 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stirrups | conj |
| 32 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 33 gleamed | advmod |
| 33 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stood | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 shone | cc |
| 35 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 gleamed | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 stones | case |
| 37 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 stones | amod |
| 38 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 shone | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 metal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all trappings of folk's steed | of metal and the stirrups; of enamel; the stirrups conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the stirrups | folk nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stain | participle | the stirrups not said here | of the same | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gleam | participle | stirrups and saddle bow | alike property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shine | participle | stirrups and saddle bow not said here | with green stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=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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