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title: And they cast over all a rich surcoat, and set the golden spurs on h… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they cast over all a rich surcoat, and set the golden spurs on his heels, and girt him with a trusty sword fastened with a silken bawdrick. Who acts: braces. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, p
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 38

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And they cast over all a rich surcoat, and set the golden spurs on his heels, and girt him with a trusty sword fastened with a silken bawdrick.

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**Who acts:** braces · **What happens:** cast, set, girt, fasten · **To what, where:** rich surcoat, golden spurs, heels, Gawain, trusty sword

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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 (braces), 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:pg66084:3:38
# text = And they cast over all a rich surcoat, and set the golden spurs on his heels, and girt him with a trusty sword fastened with a silken bawdrick.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	surcoat	surcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	girt	girt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bawdrick	bawdrick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | present | braces *= brace* |  |  | all rich surcoat |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over surcoat=Destination |
| 2 | **set** | past | braces *= brace* *not said here* | the golden spurs |  | Gawain's heels |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spur=Theme on heel=Destination |
| 3 | **girt** | infinitive | braces *= brace* *not said here* | Gawain |  |  |  | with a trusty sword | tree rules |
| 4 | **fasten** | participle |  | a trusty sword *not said here* |  |  |  | with a silken bawdrick | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with bawdrick=Co-Patient |

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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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