Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 34

There were thousands of his people around him, but not a word was said, so greatly did they all desire to hear the tidings that Ganelon and Blancandrin might be bringing with them.

Who acts: thousands, tidings · What happens: be, say, do, desire, hear, bring · To what, where: word, tidings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousands, tidings), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 people	nmod:poss
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 people	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 word	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux:pass
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 did	advmod
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	19 did	advmod
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 desire	nsubj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 desire	advmod
22	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 did	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hear	mark
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 desire	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tidings	det
26	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hear	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bringing	nsubj
28	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 bringing	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Blancandrin	cc
30	Blancandrin	Blancandrin	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Ganelon	conj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bringing	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 bringing	aux
33	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 tidings	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bringing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	thousands of King's people around King		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		a word			tree rules
3	do	past				greatly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	desire	present	thousands = thousand				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	thousands = thousand not said here	the tidings			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus
6	bring	might · progressive	the tidings			with thousands = thousand; Ganelon and Blancandrin nsubj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 34