Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 99
Curses on this traitor Ganelon, who has sold us to the heathen!"
What happens: sell · To what, where: Curses, us
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. 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 | Curses | curse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 traitor | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 traitor | det |
| 4 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Curses | nmod |
| 5 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 traitor | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sold | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sold | aux |
| 9 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Curses | acl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sold | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 heathen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heathen | det |
| 13 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sold | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 heathen | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 heathen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · perfect · passive | Curses on this traitor | us | to the heathen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=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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