Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 62

By eating of a certain herb he made himself much bigger to see, and with another herb he darkened his face almost to blackness.

Who acts: Mawgis · What happens: eat, make, see, darken · To what, where: Mawgis, face

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mawgis), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 made	advcl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 herb	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 herb	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 herb	amod
6	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 made	obj
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 bigger	advmod
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 made	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bigger	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 darkened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 darkened	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 herb	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 herb	det
18	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 darkened	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 darkened	nsubj
20	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 darkened	obj
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 blackness	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 blackness	case
25	blackness	blackness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 darkened	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	Mawgis not said here		of a certain herb	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of herb=Source
2	make	past	Mawgis	Mawgis	big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
3	see	to-infinitive	Mawgis not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	darken	past	Mawgis	Mawgis's face	with another herb; to blackness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with herb=Instrument

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, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 62