Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1039
Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed little influence, being altogether a minor divinity.
Who acts: Triton · What happens: be, possess · To what, where: only son, little influence, minor divinity
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 (Triton), 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 | Triton | Triton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Poseidon | case |
| 7 | Poseidon | Poseidon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Amphitrite | cc |
| 9 | Amphitrite | Amphitrite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Poseidon | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 possessed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 possessed | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 possessed | nsubj |
| 13 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | conj |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 influence | amod |
| 15 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possessed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 divinity | punct |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 divinity | cop |
| 18 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 21 divinity | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 divinity | det |
| 20 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 divinity | amod |
| 21 | divinity | divinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possessed | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Triton | the only son | of Poseidon and Amphitrite | tree rules | |||
| 2 | possess | past | Triton | little influence | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot influence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | Triton not said here | a minor divinity | altogether property | tree rules |
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:pg22381:1039.
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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