Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 4
But why is he bent on persecuting us?" "
What happens: bend, persecute · To what, where: Saracen, us
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 bent | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bent | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | aux:pass |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bent | nsubj |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 persecuting | mark |
| 7 | persecuting | persecute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bent | advcl |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 persecuting | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 persecuting | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 persecuting | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present · passive | Saracen | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | |||||
| 2 | persecute | gerund | us | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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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