Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 65
On her head she wore no golden circlet, but a network of precious stones, that gleamed and shone through her tresses in clusters of twenty together.
Who acts: lady, network · What happens: wear, gleam, shine · To what, where: golden circlet, head, tresses
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, network), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 circlet | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 circlet | amod |
| 8 | circlet | circlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gleamed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gleamed | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 network | det |
| 12 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gleamed | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stones | case |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stones | amod |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 network | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gleamed | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gleamed | nsubj |
| 18 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wore | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shone | cc |
| 20 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gleamed | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 tresses | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tresses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shone | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 clusters | case |
| 25 | clusters | cluster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tresses | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 twenty | case |
| 27 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 clusters | appos |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 twenty | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | lady | no golden circlet | lady's head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent circlet=Theme | |||
| 2 | gleam | past | a network of precious stones | that nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | a network of precious stones not said here | lady's tresses in clusters | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tress=Location |
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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