Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
For he was clad all in green, with a straight coat, and a mantle above; all decked and lined with fur was the cloth and the hood that was thrown back from his locks and lay on his shoulders.
Who acts: mantle, all · What happens: clad, deck, line, be, throw back, lay · To what, where: folk, cloth, hood, locks, shoulders
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 (mantle, all), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 clad | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clad | aux:pass |
| 4 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 green | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 green | case |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clad | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coat | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 coat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coat | det |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coat | amod |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clad | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mantle | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mantle | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mantle | det |
| 16 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clad | obl:agent |
| 17 | above | above | ADV | _ | 16 mantle | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 cloth | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 cloth | nsubj |
| 20 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 all | acl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lined | cc |
| 22 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 decked | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 fur | case |
| 24 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lined | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 cloth | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cloth | det |
| 27 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clad | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hood | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hood | det |
| 30 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cloth | conj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 thrown | aux:pass |
| 33 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 hood | acl:relcl |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 thrown | advmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 locks | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 locks | nmod:poss |
| 37 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 thrown | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lay | cc |
| 39 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 thrown | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 shoulders | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 42 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lay | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 cloth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | past · passive | a mantle | folk | a straight coat parataxis; green property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deck | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | line | participle | with fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | all | the cloth and the hood | the hood conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | throw back | past · passive | the hood | folk's locks | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from lock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | lay | infinitive | folk's shoulders | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=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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