Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2112
Athamas, king of Boeotia, had married Nephele, a cloud-nymph, and their children were Helle and Phryxus.
Who acts: Athamas, children · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: Nephele, Helle
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 (Athamas, children), 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 | Athamas | Athamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 married | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Athamas | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Boeotia | case |
| 5 | Boeotia | Boeotia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | Nephele | Nephele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nymph | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nymph | det |
| 12 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nymph | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cloud | punct |
| 14 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Nephele | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Helle | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Helle | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Helle | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Helle | cop |
| 20 | Helle | Helle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 married | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Phryxus | cc |
| 22 | Phryxus | Phryxus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Helle | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect | Athamas | Nephele | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nephele=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | nymphs's children | Helle and Phryxus | tree 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:pg22381:2112.
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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