Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1850

Among the Lacedaemonians, however, we find no vestiges of these stately temples, for they were specially enjoined by a law of Lycurgus to serve the gods with as little outlay as possible.

Who acts: we, law · What happens: find, enjoin, serve · To what, where: vestiges, gods

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 (we, law), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 Lacedaemonians	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lacedaemonians	det
3	Lacedaemonians	Lacedaemonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 find	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Lacedaemonians	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 find	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 vestiges	det
10	vestiges	vestige	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 temples	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 temples	det
13	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 temples	amod
14	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vestiges	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 enjoined	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 enjoined	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 enjoined	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 enjoined	aux:pass
19	specially	specially	ADV	_	20 enjoined	advmod
20	enjoined	enjoin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 find	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 law	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 law	det
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enjoined	obl:agent
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Lycurgus	case
25	Lycurgus	Lycurgus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 law	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 serve	mark
27	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 enjoined	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gods	det
29	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 serve	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 outlay	case
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 little	advmod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 outlay	amod
33	outlay	outlay	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 serve	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 possible	mark
35	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 little	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	we	no vestiges of this stately temples		among the Lacedaemonians; however property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vestige=Topic
2	enjoin	past · passive	a law of Lycurgus	vestiges = vestige		specially property	tree rules
3	serve	to-infinitive	a law of Lycurgus not said here		the gods	with little outlay	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent god=Recipient with outlay=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:pg22381:1850.

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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