Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 85

Duke Richard was ill content to hear such boasting, and, turning himself quickly, came upon him unawares and smote him so grievously that he fell dead to the earth.

Who acts: Duke Richard, ill content, Richard · What happens: be, hear, turn, come, smote, fall · To what, where: ill content, such boasting, Richard, unawares

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 (Duke Richard, ill content, Richard), 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	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Richard	compound
2	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 content	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 content	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 content	amod
5	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 content	acl
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boasting	amod
9	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turning	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turning	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turning	punct
13	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 content	acl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 turning	obj
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 turning	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 content	parataxis
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
20	unawares	unaware	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl:unmarked
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 smote	cc
22	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 smote	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 grievously	advmod
25	grievously	grievously	ADV	_	22 smote	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fell	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smote	advcl
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fell	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 earth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Duke Richard	ill content		tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive		such boasting		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boasting=Stimulus
3	turn	gerund	ill content not said here	Richard	quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	come	past		unawares	upon Richard	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
5	smote	infinitive		Richard	grievously property	tree rules
6	fall	past	Richard		to the earth; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 85

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 85