--- title: The girdle of green silk set gaily and well upon the royal red cloth… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: The girdle of green silk set gaily and well upon the royal red cloth, rich to behold, but the knight ware it not for pride of the pendants, polished though they were, with fair gold that gleamed brightly on the ends, but to save himself from sword and knife, when it behoved him to abide his hurt wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/) / 53 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 53 The girdle of green silk set gaily and well upon the royal red cloth, rich to behold, but the knight ware it not for pride of the pendants, polished though they were, with fair gold that gleamed brightly on the ends, but to save himself from sword and knife, when it behoved him to abide his hurt without question. **Who acts:** girdle, pendants, fair gold, gift · **What happens:** set, not ware, polish, be, gleam, save · **To what, where:** girdle, royal red cloth, gift, pendants, ends, knight 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girdle, pendants, fair gold, gift), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:7:53 # text = The girdle of green silk set gaily and well upon the royal red cloth, rich to behold, but the knight ware it not for pride of the pendants, polished though they were, with fair gold that gleamed brightly on the ends, but to save himself from sword and knife, when it behoved him to abide his hurt without question. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 7 gaily gaily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 behold behold INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ware ware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pendants pendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 polished polish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 advcl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 gleamed gleam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 brightly brightly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 50 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 49 obj _ _ 51 from from ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 58 advmod _ _ 57 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 behoved behove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 59 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 61 abide abide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 xcomp _ _ 62 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 61 xcomp _ _ 64 without without ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | participle | | the girdle of green silk *not said here* | | the royal red cloth | | gaily *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon cloth=Destination | | 2 | **not** **ware** | infinitive | the girdle of green silk | gift | | | | the knight *nsubj*; pride of the pendants *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **polish** | participle | | the pendants *not said here* | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | pendants *= pendant* | | | | | with fair gold | tree rules | | 5 | **gleam** | past | fair gold | | | | on the ends | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on end=Location | | 6 | **save** | to-infinitive | the girdle of green silk *not said here* | knight | | sword and knife | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from sword=Source | | 7 | **behove** | past | gift | knight | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **abide** | to-infinitive | gift *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **hurt** | participle | gift *not said here* | | | | | without question; knight *nmod:poss* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **pride** | | | the pendants | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/)