Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 43
The bridle was all barred about with bright gold buttons, and all the covertures and trappings of the steed, the crupper and the rich skirts, accorded with the saddle; spread fair with the rich red gold that glittered and gleamed in the rays of the sun.
Who acts: rich red gold · What happens: bar, accord, spread, glitter, gleam, ray · To what, where: bridle, covertures, rays, sun.
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 (rich red gold), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridle | det |
| 2 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 barred | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 barred | advmod |
| 5 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 buttons | case |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 buttons | case |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 buttons | amod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buttons | compound |
| 10 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 barred | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covertures | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 covertures | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 covertures | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 covertures | det |
| 15 | covertures | coverture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 barred | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trappings | cc |
| 17 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covertures | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 steed | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 steed | det |
| 20 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trappings | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crupper | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crupper | det |
| 23 | crupper | crupper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 steed | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 skirts | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 skirts | det |
| 26 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 skirts | amod |
| 27 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covertures | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accorded | punct |
| 29 | accorded | accord | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 covertures | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 saddle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 saddle | det |
| 32 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accorded | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 spread | punct |
| 34 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 barred | parataxis |
| 35 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 spread | xcomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 gold | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gold | det |
| 38 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gold | amod |
| 39 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gold | amod |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spread | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 glittered | nsubj |
| 42 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gold | acl:relcl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 gleamed | cc |
| 44 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 spread | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 rays | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 rays | det |
| 47 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 gleamed | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 sun. | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 sun. | det |
| 50 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 rays | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bar | past · passive | the bridle | about bright gold buttons; all covertures and trappings of the steed and the crupper and the rich skirts conj; all property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accord | participle | all covertures and trappings of the steed and the crupper and the rich skirts not said here | with the saddle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spread | participle | with the rich red gold; fair property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glitter | past | the rich red gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | gleam | participle | the rays of the sun. | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location | |||||
| 6 | ray | the sun. | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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