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title: The bridle was all barred about with bright gold buttons, and all th… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bridle was all barred about with bright gold buttons, and all the covertures and trappings of the steed, the crupper and the rich skirts, accorded with the saddle; spread fair with the rich red gold that glittered and gleamed in the rays of the sun. Who acts: rich red gold. A sentence of «Sir Ga
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 43

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The bridle was all barred about with bright gold buttons, and all the covertures and trappings of the steed, the crupper and the rich skirts, accorded with the saddle; spread fair with the rich red gold that glittered and gleamed in the rays of the sun.

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**Who acts:** rich red gold · **What happens:** bar, accord, spread, glitter, gleam, ray · **To what, where:** bridle, covertures, rays, sun.

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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 (rich red gold), 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:pg66084:3:43
# text = The bridle was all barred about with bright gold buttons, and all the covertures and trappings of the steed, the crupper and the rich skirts, accorded with the saddle; spread fair with the rich red gold that glittered and gleamed in the rays of the sun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	covertures	coverture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crupper	crupper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	skirts	skirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	accorded	accord	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
35	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bar** | past · passive |  | the bridle |  |  |  | about bright gold buttons; all covertures and trappings of the steed and the crupper and the rich skirts *conj*; all *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | participle |  | all covertures and trappings of the steed and the crupper and the rich skirts *not said here* |  |  |  | with the saddle | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the rich red gold; fair *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **glitter** | past | the rich red gold |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **gleam** | participle |  |  |  | the rays of the sun. |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location |
| 6 | **ray** |  |  | the sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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