Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 27
The curtains ran on ropes with rings of red gold, and the walls were hung with carpets of Orient, and the same spread on the floor.
Who acts: curtains · What happens: run, hang · To what, where: ropes, walls
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 (curtains), 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 curtains | det |
| 2 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ropes | case |
| 5 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rings | case |
| 7 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | amod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rings | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hung | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 walls | det |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hung | aux:pass |
| 16 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 carpets | case |
| 18 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hung | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Orient | case |
| 20 | Orient | orient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carpets | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spread | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spread | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spread | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spread | amod |
| 25 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 floor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 floor | det |
| 28 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spread | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the curtains | ropes | with rings of red gold | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rope=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hang | past · passive | the walls | with carpets of Orient; the same spread on the floor obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with carpet=Instrument |
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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