Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 35
Then they set the steel shoes upon his feet, and wrapped his legs with greaves, with polished knee-caps fastened with knots of gold.
Who acts: knights · What happens: set, wrap, polish, fasten · To what, where: steel shoes, feet, legs, polished knee caps
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoes | det |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoes | compound |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrapped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wrapped | cc |
| 12 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 legs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wrapped | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 greaves | case |
| 16 | greaves | greave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wrapped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caps | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 caps | case |
| 19 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 caps | amod |
| 20 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caps | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 knee | punct |
| 22 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wrapped | obl |
| 23 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 caps | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 knots | case |
| 25 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fastened | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knots | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | knights = knight | the steel shoes | Gawain's feet | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme upon foot=Destination | ||
| 2 | wrap | past | knights = knight not said here | Gawain's legs | with greaves; with polished knee caps | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Destination with greave=Theme | |||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fasten | participle | polished knee caps not said here | with knots of gold | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with knot=Co-Patient |
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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