Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
Around his waist and his saddle were bands with fair stones set upon silken work, ’twere too long to tell of all the trifles that were embroidered thereon—birds and insects in gay gauds of green and gold.
Who acts: saddle · What happens: be, set, tell, embroider · To what, where: bands, waist, trifles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (saddle), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 waist | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 waist | nmod:poss |
| 3 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bands | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bands | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bands | cop |
| 8 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waist | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stones | case |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stones | amod |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bands | nmod |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 14 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 work | amod |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 18 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 set | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 long | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 trifles | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 trifles | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trifles | det |
| 26 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tell | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 29 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 trifles | acl:relcl |
| 30 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 29 embroidered | advmod |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 birds | punct |
| 32 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 insects | cc |
| 34 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 birds | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 gauds | case |
| 36 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 gauds | amod |
| 37 | gauds | gaud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 birds | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 green | case |
| 39 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gauds | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 gold | cc |
| 41 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 green | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | folk's saddle | bands | with fair stones | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set | present | folk's waist and bands | upon silken work; birds in gay gauds of green and gold and insects parataxis | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon work=Destination | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | of all trifles | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | embroider | past · passive | all trifles | thereon property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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