Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1969
It was solemnized exclusively by women, who, dressed in white garments, wandered about with torches in their hands, to represent the search of the goddess for her daughter Proserpine.
Who acts: women · What happens: solemnize, dress, wander, represent, search · To what, where: place, white garments, search, goddess
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 (women), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 solemnized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 solemnized | aux:pass |
| 3 | solemnized | solemnize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 3 solemnized | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 women | case |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 solemnized | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wandered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dressed | punct |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wandered | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garments | case |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 garments | amod |
| 13 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dressed | punct |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 women | acl:relcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 wandered | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 torches | case |
| 18 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wandered | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 torches | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 represent | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 represent | mark |
| 24 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wandered | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 search | det |
| 26 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 represent | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 goddess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 goddess | det |
| 29 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 search | nmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 daughter | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 search | nmod |
| 33 | Proserpine | Proserpine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 daughter | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 solemnized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solemnize | past · passive | women | place | exclusively property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | women not said here | white garments | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | women | with torches in torches's hands; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | represent | to-infinitive | women not said here | the search of the goddess | for law's daughter | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot search=Theme for daughter=Attribute | |||
| 5 | search | the goddess | for law's daughter | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
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:pg22381:1969.
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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