Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1034
Proteus, more familiarly known as "The Old Man of the Sea," was a son of Poseidon, and gifted with prophetic power.
Who acts: Proteus · What happens: know, be, gift · To what, where: Proteus, son
This is a sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proteus), 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 | Proteus | Proteus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 known | advmod |
| 4 | familiarly | familiarly | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Proteus | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Man | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Man | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Man | det |
| 9 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Man | amod |
| 10 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sea | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Man | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Man | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Man | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 son | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Poseidon | case |
| 20 | Poseidon | Poseidon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gifted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gifted | cc |
| 23 | gifted | gift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 son | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 power | case |
| 25 | prophetic | prophetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 power | amod |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gifted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | Proteus not said here | as the Old Man of the Sea; familiarly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as man=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Proteus | a son | of Poseidon | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gift | participle | Proteus not said here | with prophetic power | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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: «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», Project Gutenberg book 22381 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg22381:1034.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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