Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 59
And therefore on his shield was the knot shapen, red-gold upon red, which is the pure pentangle.
Who acts: shield, red gold · What happens: be · To what, where: knot shapen, pure pentangle
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 (shield, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shapen | cc |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 shapen | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 shapen | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shield | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shapen | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shapen | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shapen | det |
| 8 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shapen | compound |
| 9 | shapen | shapen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gold | punct |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gold | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 red | punct |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shapen | appos |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 red | case |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gold | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pentangle | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 pentangle | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pentangle | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pentangle | det |
| 20 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pentangle | amod |
| 21 | pentangle | pentangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gold | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shapen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain's shield | the knot shapen | red gold upon red and the pure pentangle appos; therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | red gold upon red and the pure pentangle | the pure pentangle | 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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