Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 54
Her forehead was wrapped in silk with many folds, worked with knots, so that naught of her was seen save her black brows, her eyes, her nose, and her lips, and those were bleared, and ill to look upon.
What happens: wrap, work, see, blear, look · To what, where: forehead, silk, many folds, naught, those
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: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 2 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 folds | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 folds | amod |
| 9 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worked | punct |
| 11 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 folds | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 knots | case |
| 13 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 naught | det |
| 17 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 naught | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wrapped | parataxis |
| 22 | save | save | ADP | _ | 25 brows | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brows | nmod:poss |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 brows | amod |
| 25 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seen | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eyes | punct |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brows | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 nose | punct |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 nose | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brows | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lips | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lips | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 lips | nmod:poss |
| 35 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brows | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bleared | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bleared | cc |
| 38 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 40 bleared | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 bleared | aux:pass |
| 40 | bleared | blear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 seen | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ill | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ill | cc |
| 43 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bleared | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 look | mark |
| 45 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 ill | advcl |
| 46 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 look | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | lady's forehead | silk | with many folds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in silk=Destination | |||
| 2 | work | participle | many folds not said here | with knots | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with knot=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | naught of lady | save lady's black brows and lady's eyes and lady's nose and lady's lips | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | blear | past · passive | those | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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