Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 69

This done, he made a great vow that he would abide in that place for the rest of his life, eating only such wild things as were in the wood.

Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: do, make, abide, eat, be · To what, where: This, great vow, place, such wild things

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 done	nsubj:pass
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 made	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vow	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vow	amod
8	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 abide	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 abide	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 abide	aux
12	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 vow	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 abide	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 rest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 abide	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 life	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rest	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eating	punct
23	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	advcl
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 things	advmod
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
26	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eating	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 wood	case
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wood	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wood	det
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eating	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	participle · passive		This			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	make	past	Reynaud	a great vow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product
3	abide	would	Reynaud	a great vow not said here	that place	for the rest of Reynaud's life	tree rules
4	eat	gerund	Reynaud not said here	such wild things			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	is	past				as the wood	tree rules

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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 69