Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 56
This he rubbed on the nose and mouth and eyes of the Peers, and they awoke forthwith.
Who acts: This, Peers · What happens: rub, awake · To what, where: nose
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 rubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rubbed | nsubj |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 nose | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nose | det |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mouth | cc |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nose | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eyes | cc |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nose | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Peers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Peers | det |
| 13 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 awoke | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 awoke | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 awoke | nsubj |
| 17 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rubbed | conj |
| 18 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 17 awoke | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | This | the nose and mouth and eyes of the Peers | King nsubj | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on nose=Destination | |||
| 2 | awake | past | Peers = peer | forthwith property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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