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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1828

The place of honour beside the hearth was occupied by the statue of the Lar of the house, who was supposed to have been the founder of the family.

Who acts: statue · What happens: occupy, suppose, be · To what, where: place, Lar, founder

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 (statue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

detnsubj:passcasenmodcasedetnmodaux:passcasedetobl:agentcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclmarkauxcopdetxcompcasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETplaceNOUNofADPhonourNOUNbesideADPtheDEThearthNOUNwasAUXoccupiedVERBbyADPtheDETstatueNOUNofADPtheDETLarNOUNofADPtheDEThouseNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXsupposedVERBtoPARThaveAUXbeenAUXtheDETfounderNOUNofADPtheDETfamilyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 placedet
2placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing9 occupiednsubj:pass
3ofofADP_4 honourcase
4honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing2 placenmod
5besidebesideADP_7 hearthcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 hearthdet
7hearthhearthNOUNNumber=Sing2 placenmod
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 occupiedaux:pass
9occupiedoccupyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10bybyADP_12 statuecase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 statuedet
12statuestatueNOUNNumber=Sing9 occupiedobl:agent
13ofofADP_15 Larcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Lardet
15LarlarNOUNNumber=Sing12 statuenmod
16ofofADP_18 housecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 housedet
18househouseNOUNNumber=Sing15 Larnmod
19,,PUNCT_22 supposedpunct
20whowhoPRONPronType=Rel22 supposednsubj:pass
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 supposedaux:pass
22supposedsupposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 Laracl:relcl
23totoPART_27 foundermark
24havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf27 founderaux
25beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part27 foundercop
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 founderdet
27founderfounderNOUNNumber=Sing22 supposedxcomp
28ofofADP_30 familycase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 familydet
30familyfamilyNOUNNumber=Sing27 foundernmod
31..PUNCT_9 occupiedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1occupypast · passivethe statue of the Lar of the housethe place of honour beside the hearthvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2supposepast · passivethe Lar of the housevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3is ato-infinitive · perfectthe founderof the familytree 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:pg22381:1828.

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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