Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1112
The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker.
Who acts: animals · What happens: consecrate, be · To what, where: animals, animal, wolf
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 (animals), 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 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wolf | nsubj |
| 3 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 animals | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consecrated | obl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wolf | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wolf | det |
| 8 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wolf | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vulture | punct |
| 12 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wolf | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 woodpecker | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 woodpecker | cc |
| 15 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wolf | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wolf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consecrate | participle | the animals not said here | animal | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the animals | the wolf and horse and vulture and woodpecker | 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:pg22381:1112.
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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