Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1278
These three were Acheron (sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), and Styx (intense darkness), the sacred stream which flowed nine times round these realms.
Who acts: three, sacred stream · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: Acheron
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 (three, sacred stream), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Acheron | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Acheron | cop |
| 4 | Acheron | Acheron | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorrow | punct |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Acheron | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorrow | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cocytus | punct |
| 9 | Cocytus | Cocytus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Acheron | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamentation | punct |
| 11 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Cocytus | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamentation | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Styx | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Styx | cc |
| 15 | Styx | Styx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Acheron | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 darkness | punct |
| 17 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 darkness | amod |
| 18 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Styx | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 darkness | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stream | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stream | det |
| 22 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stream | amod |
| 23 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Styx | appos |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 flowed | nsubj |
| 25 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stream | acl:relcl |
| 26 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flowed | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 realms | case |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 realms | det |
| 30 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flowed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Acheron | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this three | Acheron and Cocytus and Styx | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the sacred stream | time | round this realms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:pg22381:1278.
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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