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title: When he was thus clad his harness was costly, for the least loop or… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was thus clad his harness was costly, for the least loop or latchet gleamed with gold. Who acts: harness. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

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When he was thus clad his harness was costly, for the least loop or latchet gleamed with gold.

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**Who acts:** harness · **What happens:** clad, be, gleam · **To what, where:** Gawain, least loop

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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 (harness), 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:pg66084:3:39
# text = When he was thus clad his harness was costly, for the least loop or latchet gleamed with gold.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	latchet	latchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clad** | past · passive |  | Gawain |  |  |  | for the least loop or latchet; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Gawain's harness |  |  |  |  | costly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gleam** | participle |  | the least loop or latchet *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme |

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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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