Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 47
Then they brought him his shield, which was of bright red, with the pentangle painted thereon in gleaming gold.
Who acts: turtle, shield, pentangle · What happens: bring, be, paint, gleam · To what, where: shield, bridle, gold
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 (turtle, shield, pentangle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shield | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 red | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 red | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 red | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 red | case |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 red | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shield | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 painted | punct |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 painted | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pentangle | det |
| 16 | pentangle | pentangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 painted | nsubj |
| 17 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 18 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 17 painted | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 gleaming | mark |
| 20 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 painted | advcl |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gleaming | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | turtle | bridle's shield | bridle | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shield=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | bridle's shield | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | paint | past | the pentangle | thereon property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gleam | gerund | the pentangle not said here | gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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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