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title: persecutor — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «persecutor» in the school dictionary: Someone who treats another person cruelly and unfairly again and again, to hurt or harm them. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# persecutor

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**Who acts:** poor girl, men, persecutor · **What happens:** treat, hurt, harm, run, be, follow · **To what, where:** person, them, persecutors, her

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«persecutor» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [persecutor in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/persecutor.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Someone who treats another person cruelly and unfairly again and again, to hurt or harm them.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persecutor:m1:1
# text = Someone who treats another person cruelly and unfairly again and again, to hurt or harm them.
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	treats	treat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	harm	harm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | present |  |  | another person |  |  | cruelly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **harm** | infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The poor girl ran from her persecutors.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persecutor:x1:1
# text = The poor girl ran from her persecutors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	persecutors	persecutor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the poor girl |  |  | girl's persecutors |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from persecutor=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The king's men were the persecutors of the kind old man.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persecutor:x2:1
# text = The king's men were the persecutors of the kind old man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	persecutors	persecutor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the king's men | the persecutors |  |  |  | of the kind old man | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Her persecutor followed her all the way home.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:persecutor:x3:1
# text = Her persecutor followed her all the way home.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	persecutor	persecutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Her persecutor | her *= she* |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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