Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 78

When he heard these words, Gallafer, the giant, was greatly enraged, and made as if he would smite Orage with a staff, but they that stood by hindered him.

Who acts: man, words · What happens: hear, enrage, make, smite, stand, hinder · To what, where: words, Orage, man

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, words), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Gallafer	punct
7	Gallafer	Gallafer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 words	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 giant	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Gallafer	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 enraged	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 enraged	aux:pass
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	14 enraged	advmod
14	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 enraged	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 smite	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 smite	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 smite	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 smite	aux
22	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	advcl
23	Orage	Orage	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 smite	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 staff	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 staff	det
26	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 smite	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stood	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 hindered	mark
33	hindered	hinder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stood	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hindered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	man	this words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	enrage	past · passive	man not said here		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	make	participle	man not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	smite	would	man	Orage	with a staff	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent orage=Patient with staff=Instrument
5	stand	past	words = word		that nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hinder	past	words = word not said here	man		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality

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 Richard of Normandy, sentence 78