Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 46
First he made their sleep to be stronger by far, so that the King and the Peers and the whole company were altogether mastered by it.
Who acts: Mawgis, sleep, Peers · What happens: make, be, master, sleep · To what, where: sleep, King
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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, sleep, Peers), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stronger | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stronger | cop |
| 8 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 made | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 far | case |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 stronger | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mastered | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 mastered | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 mastered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mastered | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Peers | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Peers | det |
| 18 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 King | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 company | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 company | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 company | amod |
| 22 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 King | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mastered | aux:pass |
| 24 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 25 mastered | advmod |
| 25 | mastered | master | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mastered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Mawgis | Peers's sleep | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Product | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Peers's sleep not said here | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | master | past · passive | the King and the Peers and the whole company | by company; altogether property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | Peers = peer | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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