Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 49
Both hauberk and plates were well burnished, the rings of the rich byrny freed from rust, and all as fresh as at first, so that the knight was fain to thank them.
Who acts: knight · What happens: burnish, free, be, thank · To what, where: hauberk, rich byrny, rust
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 (knight), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 hauberk | det |
| 2 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burnished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 plates | cc |
| 4 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hauberk | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 burnished | aux:pass |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 burnished | advmod |
| 7 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rings | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rings | det |
| 10 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burnished | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 byrny | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 byrny | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 byrny | amod |
| 14 | byrny | byrny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rings | nmod |
| 15 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 byrny | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 rust | case |
| 17 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 freed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fresh | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fresh | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 fresh | nsubj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fresh | advmod |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burnished | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 first | case |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 first | case |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 fresh | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fain | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 fain | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 fain | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 knight | det |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fain | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fain | cop |
| 32 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burnished | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 thank | mark |
| 34 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fain | advcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thank | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnish | past · passive | both hauberk and plates | the rings of the rich byrny obl; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | free | participle | the rich byrny not said here | rust | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the knight | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | the knight not said here | hauberk | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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