Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
And they cast over all a rich surcoat, and set the golden spurs on his heels, and girt him with a trusty sword fastened with a silken bawdrick.
Who acts: braces · What happens: cast, set, girt, fasten · To what, where: rich surcoat, golden spurs, heels, Gawain, trusty sword
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 (braces), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cast | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 surcoat | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 surcoat | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 surcoat | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 surcoat | amod |
| 8 | surcoat | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spurs | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spurs | amod |
| 14 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 heels | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 girt | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 girt | cc |
| 20 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cast | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 girt | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 24 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sword | amod |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 girt | obl |
| 26 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sword | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 bawdrick | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bawdrick | det |
| 29 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bawdrick | amod |
| 30 | bawdrick | bawdrick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fastened | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | present | braces = brace | all rich surcoat | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over surcoat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set | past | braces = brace not said here | the golden spurs | Gawain's heels | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spur=Theme on heel=Destination | |||
| 3 | girt | infinitive | braces = brace not said here | Gawain | with a trusty sword | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fasten | participle | a trusty sword not said here | with a silken bawdrick | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with bawdrick=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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