Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 13
The lower part of his sleeves were fastened with clasps in the same wise as a king’s mantle.
What happens: fasten · To what, where: lower part
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: 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 | 3 part | det |
| 2 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sleeves | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fastened | aux:pass |
| 8 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 clasps | case |
| 10 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fastened | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wise | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wise | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wise | amod |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fastened | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 mantle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wise | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | the lower part of folk's sleeves | with clasps | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with clasp=Co-Patient |
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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