Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 15
The tail was twined in like manner, and both were bound about with a band of bright green set with many a precious stone; then they were tied aloft in a cunning knot, whereon rang many bells of burnished gold.
What happens: twine in, bind, tie, ring, burnish · To what, where: tail, both, stones, many bells
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 | 2 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 twined | aux:pass |
| 4 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 twined | compound:prt |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 manner | case |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twined | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bound | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bound | cc |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bound | aux:pass |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 twined | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 bound | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 band | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 band | det |
| 16 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 set | case |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 set | amod |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 set | amod |
| 20 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 band | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 stone | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stone | nsubj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stone | det |
| 24 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stone | amod |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 tied | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 tied | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tied | aux:pass |
| 30 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 twined | parataxis |
| 31 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tied | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 knot | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 knot | det |
| 34 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 knot | amod |
| 35 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 aloft | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rang | punct |
| 37 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 rang | advmod |
| 38 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tied | conj |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bells | amod |
| 40 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rang | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 gold | case |
| 42 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 gold | amod |
| 43 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bells | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 twined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twine in | past · passive | the tail | like manner | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bind | past · passive | both | with a band of bright green set with a precious stone; about property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with band=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | tie | past · passive | stones = stone | then | aloft property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | ring | past | many bells of burnished gold | whereon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burnish | participle | tree rules |
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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