Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 114
The hurt that he had in his neck was healed, he bare the shining girdle as a baldric bound by his side, and made fast with a knot ’neath his left arm, in token that he was taken in a fault—and thus he came in safety again to the court.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: have, heal, bare, shine, bind, make · To what, where: hurt, neck, shining girdle, baldric, Gawain, fault
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 8. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hurt | det |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 healed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurt | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 healed | aux:pass |
| 10 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bare | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bare | nsubj |
| 13 | bare | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 healed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girdle | det |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 girdle | amod |
| 16 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bare | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 baldric | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 baldric | det |
| 19 | baldric | baldric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bare | obl |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 baldric | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bound | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 healed | conj |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 made | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 knot | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 knot | det |
| 30 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 arm | punct |
| 32 | neath | neath | ADP | _ | 35 arm | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 arm | nmod:poss |
| 34 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 arm | amod |
| 35 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 token | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 token | case |
| 38 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 arm | appos |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 taken | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 taken | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 token | acl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 fault | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 fault | det |
| 45 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taken | obl |
| 46 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 came | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 came | cc |
| 48 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 50 came | advmod |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 came | nsubj |
| 50 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 healed | conj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 safety | case |
| 52 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 came | obl |
| 53 | again | again | ADV | _ | 50 came | advmod |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 court | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 court | det |
| 56 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 came | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 healed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Gawain | the hurt not said here | Gawain's neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient | |||
| 2 | heal | past · passive | the hurt | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bare | past | Gawain | the shining girdle | as a baldric | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient | |||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | bind | participle | a baldric not said here | by Gawain's side | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | participle | with a knot; neath Gawain's left arm; fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 7 | take | past · passive | Gawain | a fault | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in fault=Location | ||||
| 8 | come | past | Gawain | safety | again | to the court; thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_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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