Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1048
No sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he precipitated himself into the deep, and became a sea-god.
Who acts: Triton · What happens: do, obey, precipitate, become · To what, where: this, irresistible impulse, Triton, deep, sea god
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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 2 sooner | advmod |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 precipitated | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obeying | punct |
| 8 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 precipitated | advcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 impulse | det |
| 10 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 impulse | amod |
| 11 | impulse | impulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obeying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 precipitated | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 precipitated | nsubj |
| 14 | precipitated | precipitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sooner | advcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 precipitated | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 deep | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deep | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 precipitated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 precipitated | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 god | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 god | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 god | punct |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | obey | gerund | Triton not said here | a irresistible impulse | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impulse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | precipitate | past | Triton | Triton | the deep | tree rules | |||
| 4 | become | past | Triton not said here | a sea god | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:pg22381:1048.
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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