Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 50
Then he did on each piece, and bade them bring his steed, while he put the fairest raiment on himself; his coat with its fair cognizance, adorned with precious stones upon velvet, with broidered seams, and all furred within with costly skins.
Who acts: knight, coat · What happens: do, bade, bring, put, adorn, broider · To what, where: coat, piece, hauberk, steed, fairest raiment, fair cognizance
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, coat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 piece | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bade | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 steed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bade | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 raiment | det |
| 19 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 raiment | amod |
| 20 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 coat | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 coat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 cognizance | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cognizance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cognizance | amod |
| 29 | cognizance | cognizance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coat | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 adorned | punct |
| 31 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 cognizance | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 stones | case |
| 33 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stones | amod |
| 34 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 adorned | obl |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 velvet | case |
| 36 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 adorned | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 seams | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 seams | case |
| 39 | broidered | broider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 seams | amod |
| 40 | seams | seam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 adorned | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 furred | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 furred | cc |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 furred | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 45 | within | within | ADP | _ | 48 skins | case |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 skins | case |
| 47 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 skins | amod |
| 48 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 furred | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | knight | knight's coat with coat's fair cognizance | each piece | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | bade | past | hauberk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | knight's steed | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | past | knight | the fairest raiment | on knight | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Theme on himself=Destination | |||
| 5 | adorn | participle | coat's fair cognizance not said here | with precious stones; upon velvet; with broidered seams | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | broider | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fur | participle · passive | all | within costly skins | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | cognize | coat | nom cognizance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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