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title: Around his waist and his saddle were bands with fair stones set upon… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Around his waist and his saddle were bands with fair stones set upon silken work, ’twere too long to tell of all the trifles that were embroidered thereon—birds and insects in gay gauds of green and gold. Who acts: saddle. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Ro
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 8

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Around his waist and his saddle were bands with fair stones set upon silken work, ’twere too long to tell of all the trifles that were embroidered thereon—birds and insects in gay gauds of green and gold.

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**Who acts:** saddle · **What happens:** be, set, tell, embroider · **To what, where:** bands, waist, trifles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (saddle), 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:pg66084:2:8
# text = Around his waist and his saddle were bands with fair stones set upon silken work, ’twere too long to tell of all the trifles that were embroidered thereon—birds and insects in gay gauds of green and gold.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	twere	twere	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trifles	trifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	gauds	gaud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | folk's saddle | bands |  |  |  | with fair stones | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present |  |  |  | folk's waist and bands |  | upon silken work; birds in gay gauds of green and gold and insects *parataxis* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon work=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of all trifles | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **embroider** | past · passive |  | all trifles |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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