Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
Well burnished braces they set on each arm with good elbow-pieces, and gloves of mail, and all the goodly gear that should shield him in his need.
Who acts: burnished braces, goodly gear, Gawain · What happens: burnish, set, shield, need · To what, where: goodly gear, arm, Gawain, need
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 (burnished braces, goodly gear, Gawain), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 braces | discourse |
| 2 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 braces | amod |
| 3 | braces | brace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 arm | det |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pieces | amod |
| 11 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 elbow | punct |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gloves | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gloves | cc |
| 16 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pieces | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mail | case |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gloves | nmod | ||
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gear | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gear | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 gear | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gear | det |
| 23 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gear | amod |
| 24 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 shield | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 shield | aux |
| 27 | shield | shield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gear | acl:relcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shield | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 need | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 need | nmod:poss |
| 31 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shield | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | set | present | burnished braces | all goodly gear | each arm | with good elbow pieces and gloves of mail; braces = brace nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on arm=Destination | ||
| 3 | shield | should | all goodly gear | Gawain | Gawain's need | tree rules | |||
| 4 | need | Gawain | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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