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title: It was an ill deed that the traitor Ganelon wrought when he sold his… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was an ill deed that the traitor Ganelon wrought when he sold his fellows to King Marsilas! Who acts: battle, Ganelon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 60

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It was an ill deed that the traitor Ganelon wrought when he sold his fellows to King Marsilas!

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**Who acts:** battle, Ganelon · **What happens:** be, sell · **To what, where:** ill deed, fellows, King Marsilas

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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: who acts (battle, Ganelon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:31:60
# text = It was an ill deed that the traitor Ganelon wrought when he sold his fellows to King Marsilas!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | battle | a ill deed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | past | Ganelon | Ganelon's fellows | King Marsilas |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme to marsilas=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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