Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 41

William Rufus was so over-bear-ing and cruel that he was feared and hated by all his people.

Who acts: William · What happens: be, fear, hate · To what, where: William

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 over-bear-ing	nsubj
2	Rufus	Rufus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 William	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over-bear-ing	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 over-bear-ing	advmod
5	over-bear-ing	over-bear-ing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cruel	cc
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 over-bear-ing	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 feared	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feared	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feared	aux:pass
11	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 over-bear-ing	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hated	cc
13	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feared	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 people	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 people	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 people	nmod:poss
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hated	obl:agent
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 over-bear-ing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	William		over-bear-ing property	tree rules
2	be		William not said here			tree rules
3	fear	past · passive		William		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	hate	participle				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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