Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 181
Everything which surrounded them was of brass; their arms, their tools, their dwellings, and all that they made.
Who acts: Everything, men · What happens: surround, be, make · To what, where: men
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 (Everything, men), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 brass | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 surrounded | nsubj |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Everything | acl:relcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surrounded | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brass | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 brass | case |
| 7 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 arms | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Everything | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tools | punct |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tools | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arms | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwellings | punct |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dwellings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arms | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 all | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 arms | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past | men = man | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Everything | of brass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | men = man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product |
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:pg22381:181.
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.
See the release 0.3.
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