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description: Then they brought him his shield, which was of bright red, with the pentangle painted thereon in gleaming gold. Who acts: turtle, shield, pentangle. 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 i
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 47

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Then they brought him his shield, which was of bright red, with the pentangle painted thereon in gleaming gold.

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**Who acts:** turtle, shield, pentangle · **What happens:** bring, be, paint, gleam · **To what, where:** shield, bridle, gold

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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 (turtle, shield, pentangle), 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:pg66084:3:47
# text = Then they brought him his shield, which was of bright red, with the pentangle painted thereon in gleaming gold.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pentangle	pentangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | turtle | bridle's shield | bridle |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shield=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | bridle's shield |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **paint** | past | the pentangle |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gleam** | gerund | the pentangle *not said here* | gold |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 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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