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title: He wore a light kerchief over the vintail, that was broidered and st… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: He wore a light kerchief over the vintail, that was broidered and studded with fair gems on a broad silken ribbon, with birds of gay colour, and many a turtle and true-lover’s knot interlaced thickly, even as many a maiden had wrought them. Who acts: bridle, many turtle. A sentence of «Sir Gawain an
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 45

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He wore a light kerchief over the vintail, that was broidered and studded with fair gems on a broad silken ribbon, with birds of gay colour, and many a turtle and true-lover’s knot interlaced thickly, even as many a maiden had wrought them.

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**Who acts:** bridle, many turtle · **What happens:** wear, broider, stud, interlace, wrought · **To what, where:** light kerchief, vintail, that, broad silken ribbon, many

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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 (bridle, many turtle), 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:pg66084:3:45
# text = He wore a light kerchief over the vintail, that was broidered and studded with fair gems on a broad silken ribbon, with birds of gay colour, and many a turtle and true-lover’s knot interlaced thickly, even as many a maiden had wrought them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vintail	vintail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	broidered	broider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	studded	stud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	interlaced	interlace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
41	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | bridle | a light kerchief |  | the vintail |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme |
| 2 | **broider** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stud** | participle |  |  |  | a broad silken ribbon with birds of gay colour |  | with fair gems | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gem=Theme |
| 4 | **interlace** | participle | a many turtle and true lover's knot |  |  |  |  | thickly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **wrought** | past · perfect · passive |  | many |  |  |  | a maiden *nsubj:pass*; turtle *obj* | tree rules |

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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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