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title: Well burnished braces they set on each arm with good elbow-pieces, a… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well burnished braces they set on each arm with good elbow-pieces, and gloves of mail, and all the goodly gear that should shield him in his need. Who acts: burnished braces, goodly gear, Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Pros
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

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Well burnished braces they set on each arm with good elbow-pieces, and gloves of mail, and all the goodly gear that should shield him in his need.

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**Who acts:** burnished braces, goodly gear, Gawain · **What happens:** burnish, set, shield, need · **To what, where:** goodly gear, arm, Gawain, need

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burnished braces, goodly gear, Gawain), 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:pg66084:3:37
# text = Well burnished braces they set on each arm with good elbow-pieces, and gloves of mail, and all the goodly gear that should shield him in his need.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	burnished	burnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	braces	brace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	shield	shield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present | burnished braces | all goodly gear |  | each arm |  | with good elbow pieces and gloves of mail; braces *= brace* *nsubj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on arm=Destination |
| 3 | **shield** | should | all goodly gear | Gawain |  | Gawain's need |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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