Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 42
With that was Gringalet ready, girt with a saddle that gleamed gaily with many golden fringes, enriched and decked anew for the venture.
Who acts: that, you, saddle · What happens: be, girt, gleam, enrich, deck · To what, where: many golden fringes
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 (that, you, 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 ready | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 4 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | compound |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girt | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 7 | girt | girt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 saddle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 saddle | det |
| 10 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girt | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gleamed | nsubj |
| 12 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saddle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 12 gleamed | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 fringes | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fringes | amod |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fringes | amod |
| 17 | fringes | fringe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gleamed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enriched | punct |
| 19 | enriched | enrich | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fringes | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 decked | cc |
| 21 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 enriched | conj |
| 22 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 decked | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 venture | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 venture | det |
| 25 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 decked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | girt | imperative | you not said here | with a saddle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gleam | past | a saddle | with many golden fringes; gaily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fringe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enrich | participle | many golden fringes not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | deck | participle | for the venture; anew property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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