Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 48
First he clad him in his clothes to keep off the cold, and then in his harness, which was well and fairly kept.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: clad, keep off, keep · To what, where: Sir, clothes, cold, harness
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 clad | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clad | nsubj |
| 3 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clad | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 clad | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clad | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 keep | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cold | det |
| 12 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 harness | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 harness | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 harness | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 harness | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 harness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clad | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kept | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 kept | obj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kept | aux:pass |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 kept | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kept | cc |
| 24 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 25 kept | advmod |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 harness | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | past | Gawain | Sir | Gawain's clothes | Gawain's harness parataxis; first property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | keep off | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | the cold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · passive | Gawain's harness | fairly, well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: which=Theme |
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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