Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
But the circlet which crowned his helmet was yet more precious, being adorned with a device in diamonds.
Who acts: circlet · What happens: crown, be, adorn · To what, where: helmet
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 (circlet), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 precious | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 circlet | det |
| 3 | circlet | circlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 precious | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 crowned | nsubj |
| 5 | crowned | crown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 circlet | acl:relcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowned | obj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 precious | cop |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 precious | advmod |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 adorned | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 adorned | aux:pass |
| 14 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 precious | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 device | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 device | det |
| 17 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 adorned | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 diamonds | case |
| 19 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 device | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | past | the circlet | bridle's helmet | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the circlet | yet | precious property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | adorn | gerund · passive | the circlet not said here | with a device in diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with device=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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