Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
Hose had he of the same green, and spurs of bright gold with silken fastenings richly worked; and all his vesture was verily green.
Who acts: Hose, spurs, vesture · What happens: have, work, be, spur · To what, where: bright gold
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 (Hose, spurs, vesture), 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 | Hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 green | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 green | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 green | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 green | amod |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 worked | cc |
| 10 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 worked | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gold | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spurs | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fastenings | case |
| 15 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fastenings | amod |
| 16 | fastenings | fastening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spurs | nmod |
| 17 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 18 worked | advmod |
| 18 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 green | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 green | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 green | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 vesture | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 vesture | nmod:poss |
| 23 | vesture | vesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 green | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 green | cop |
| 25 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 26 green | advmod |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 green | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | work | past | spurs of bright gold with silken fastenings | richly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | folk's vesture | green, verily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spur | bright gold | with silken fastenings | nom spur «communication transitive»: of=patient with=obl |
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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