Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 13
Greek myths tell of heroes like Heracles with his twelve labours, Perseus and Medusa, and Theseus and the Minotaur; modern films and books, like Disney's Hercules or Percy Jackson, change these old myths a lot to make new stories.
Who acts: Greek myths, modern films · What happens: tell, change, make · To what, where: old myths, new stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greek myths, modern films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 myths | amod |
| 2 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heroes | case |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Heracles | case |
| 7 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heroes | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 labours | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 labours | nmod:poss |
| 10 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 labours | nummod |
| 11 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heroes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Perseus | punct |
| 13 | Perseus | Perseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 labours | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Medusa | cc |
| 15 | Medusa | Medusa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Perseus | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Theseus | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Theseus | cc |
| 18 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Perseus | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Minotaur | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Minotaur | det |
| 21 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Theseus | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 films | punct |
| 23 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 films | amod |
| 24 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 change | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 books | cc |
| 26 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 films | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hercules | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 Hercules | case |
| 29 | Disney | Disney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Hercules | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Disney | case |
| 31 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 films | nmod |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 Percy | cc |
| 33 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Hercules | conj |
| 34 | Jackson | Jackson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Percy | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hercules | punct |
| 36 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 37 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 myths | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 myths | amod |
| 39 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 change | obj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 lot | det |
| 41 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 change | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 make | mark |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 change | advcl |
| 44 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 stories | amod |
| 45 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 make | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Greek myths | of heroes like Heracles with Heracles's twelve labours | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | present | modern films like Disney's Hercules or Percy and books | this old myths | a lot obl:unmarked | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | modern films like Disney's Hercules or Percy and books not said here | new stories | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product |
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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The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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