Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1095

The Romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of their city.

Who acts: Romans · What happens: look, declare, be · To what, where: Triton, father

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 (Romans), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Romans	det
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 protector	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 protector	nmod:poss
8	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 protector	amod
9	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 declared	cc
12	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 declared	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	18 father	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 father	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 father	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 father	det
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 declared	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Romulus	case
20	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 father	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Remus	cc
22	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Romulus	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 founders	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 founders	det
25	founders	founder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Romulus	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 city	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 city	nmod:poss
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 founders	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Romans		upon Triton; as Romans's special protector	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the Romans not said here	Triton		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
3	is a	to-infinitive · perfect	the Romans not said here	the father	of Romulus and Remus	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:pg22381:1095.

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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