Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 45
He wore a light kerchief over the vintail, that was broidered and studded with fair gems on a broad silken ribbon, with birds of gay colour, and many a turtle and true-lover’s knot interlaced thickly, even as many a maiden had wrought them.
Who acts: bridle, many turtle · What happens: wear, broider, stud, interlace, wrought · To what, where: light kerchief, vintail, that, broad silken ribbon, many
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 (bridle, many turtle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kerchief | det |
| 4 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kerchief | amod |
| 5 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 vintail | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vintail | det |
| 8 | vintail | vintail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broidered | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 broidered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 broidered | aux:pass |
| 12 | broidered | broider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 studded | cc |
| 14 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 broidered | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 gems | case |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gems | amod |
| 17 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 studded | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ribbon | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ribbon | det |
| 20 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ribbon | amod |
| 21 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ribbon | amod |
| 22 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 studded | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 birds | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 birds | case |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ribbon | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 colour | case |
| 27 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 colour | amod |
| 28 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 birds | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 interlaced | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 interlaced | cc |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 turtle | amod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 turtle | det |
| 33 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 interlaced | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 knot | cc |
| 35 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lover | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 true | punct |
| 37 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 knot | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 lover | case |
| 39 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turtle | conj |
| 40 | interlaced | interlace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 41 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 interlaced | xcomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 wrought | punct |
| 43 | even | even | ADV | _ | 45 many | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 many | advmod |
| 45 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 maiden | det |
| 47 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 wrought | aux |
| 49 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 interlaced | conj |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 wrought | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | bridle | a light kerchief | the vintail | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme | |||
| 2 | broider | past · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stud | participle | a broad silken ribbon with birds of gay colour | with fair gems | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gem=Theme | ||||
| 4 | interlace | participle | a many turtle and true lover's knot | thickly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wrought | past · perfect · passive | many | a maiden nsubj:pass; turtle obj | tree rules |
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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