Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 20
The steel was set into a strong staff, all bound round with iron, even to the end, and engraved with green in cunning work.
What happens: set, bound, engrave · To what, where: steel, strong staff, cunning work
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 steel | det |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 staff | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 staff | det |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 staff | amod |
| 8 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bound | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 bound | advmod |
| 11 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 bound | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 iron | case |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bound | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 end | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 end | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 iron | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 engraved | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 engraved | cc |
| 22 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 set | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 green | case |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 engraved | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 work | case |
| 26 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 work | amod |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 engraved | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the steel | a strong staff | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | bound | present | with iron and the end; round property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | engrave | participle | cunning work | with green | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in work=Destination |
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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