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title: With that was Gringalet ready, girt with a saddle that gleamed gaily… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: With that was Gringalet ready, girt with a saddle that gleamed gaily with many golden fringes, enriched and decked anew for the venture. Who acts: that, you, saddle. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Openin
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 42

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With that was Gringalet ready, girt with a saddle that gleamed gaily with many golden fringes, enriched and decked anew for the venture.

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**Who acts:** that, you, saddle · **What happens:** be, girt, gleam, enrich, deck · **To what, where:** many golden fringes

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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 (that, you, 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:pg66084:3:42
# text = With that was Gringalet ready, girt with a saddle that gleamed gaily with many golden fringes, enriched and decked anew for the venture.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Gringalet	Gringalet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	girt	girt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	enriched	enrich	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	anew	anew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **girt** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a saddle | tree rules |
| 3 | **gleam** | past | a saddle |  |  |  |  | with many golden fringes; gaily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fringe=Theme |
| 4 | **enrich** | participle |  | many golden fringes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **deck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for the venture; anew *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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