Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 26
The bedding was noble, with curtains of pure silk wrought with gold, and wondrous coverings of fair cloth all embroidered.
Who acts: bedding, wondrous coverings · What happens: be, embroider
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bedding, wondrous coverings), 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 bedding | det |
| 2 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noble | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noble | cop |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curtains | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 curtains | case |
| 7 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 noble | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 silk | case |
| 9 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 silk | amod |
| 10 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curtains | nmod |
| 11 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 silk | amod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 embroidered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 embroidered | cc |
| 16 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coverings | amod |
| 17 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 embroidered | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cloth | case |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cloth | amod |
| 20 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coverings | nmod |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 embroidered | advmod |
| 22 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noble | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bedding | with curtains of pure silk; noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embroider | past | wondrous coverings of fair cloth | all property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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