Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1201
This was the vine, from which he subsequently learnt to extract a juice which formed a most exhilarating beverage.
Who acts: This, animal, juice · What happens: be, learn, extract, form · To what, where: vine, juice, exhilarating beverage
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 (This, animal, juice), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 vine | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vine | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vine | det |
| 4 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 learnt | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 extract | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 learnt | nsubj |
| 9 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 10 learnt | advmod |
| 10 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vine | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 extract | mark |
| 12 | extract | extract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 learnt | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 juice | det |
| 14 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 extract | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 formed | nsubj |
| 16 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 juice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 beverage | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 exhilarating | advmod |
| 19 | exhilarating | exhilarating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beverage | amod |
| 20 | beverage | beverage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 formed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the vine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | animal | subsequently property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | extract | to-infinitive | animal not said here | a juice | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent juice=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | form | past | a juice | a exhilarating beverage | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beverage=Theme |
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:pg22381:1201.
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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