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title: The tail was twined in like manner, and both were bound about with a… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tail was twined in like manner, and both were bound about with a band of bright green set with many a precious stone; then they were tied aloft in a cunning knot, whereon rang many bells of burnished gold. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 15

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The tail was twined in like manner, and both were bound about with a band of bright green set with many a precious stone; then they were tied aloft in a cunning knot, whereon rang many bells of burnished gold.

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**What happens:** twine in, bind, tie, ring, burnish · **To what, where:** tail, both, stones, many bells

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:2:15
# text = The tail was twined in like manner, and both were bound about with a band of bright green set with many a precious stone; then they were tied aloft in a cunning knot, whereon rang many bells of burnished gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
31	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
38	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	burnished	burnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twine in** | past · passive |  | the tail |  |  |  | like manner | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bind** | past · passive |  | both |  |  |  | with a band of bright green set with a precious stone; about *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with band=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **tie** | past · passive |  | stones *= stone* |  |  | then | aloft *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **ring** | past |  | many bells of burnished gold |  |  |  | whereon *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 5 | **burnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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