Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 36
Then they cased his thighs in cuisses closed with thongs, and brought him the byrny of bright steel rings sewn upon a fair stuff.
Who acts: knights · What happens: case, close, bring, sew · To what, where: thighs, cuisses, byrny, Gawain, bright steel rings, fair stuff
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 cased | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cased | nsubj |
| 3 | cased | case | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thighs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thighs | thigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cased | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cuisses | case |
| 7 | cuisses | cuisse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cased | obl |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cuisses | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 thongs | case |
| 10 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 closed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cased | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 byrny | det |
| 16 | byrny | byrny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rings | case |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rings | amod |
| 19 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rings | compound |
| 20 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 byrny | nmod |
| 21 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 rings | acl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 stuff | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stuff | det |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuff | amod |
| 25 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sewn | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | case | past | knights = knight | Gawain's thighs | cuisses | then | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thigh=Theme in cuisse=Destination | ||
| 2 | close | participle | cuisses not said here | with thongs | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thong=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | knights = knight not said here | the byrny of bright steel rings | Gawain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination byrny=Theme | |||
| 4 | sew | participle | bright steel rings not said here | a fair stuff | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon stuff=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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