Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2162
Pollux, who was the best pugilist in Greece, was selected as their champion, and a contest took place, which, after a tremendous struggle, proved fatal to Amycus, who had hitherto been victorious in all similar encounters.
Who acts: Pollux, contest, Amycus · What happens: be, select, take, prove · To what, where: best pugilist, Greece, Pollux, place, similar encounters
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 (Pollux, contest, Amycus), 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 | Pollux | Pollux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pugilist | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pugilist | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pugilist | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pugilist | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 pugilist | amod |
| 7 | pugilist | pugilist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pollux | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Greece | case |
| 9 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pugilist | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pugilist | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 selected | aux:pass |
| 12 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 champion | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 champion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selected | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 contest | det |
| 19 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 selected | conj |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 struggle | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 proved | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 struggle | punct |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 struggle | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 struggle | det |
| 27 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 struggle | amod |
| 28 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 proved | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 struggle | punct |
| 30 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 contest | acl:relcl |
| 31 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 proved | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Amycus | case |
| 33 | Amycus | Amycus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 fatal | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 victorious | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 victorious | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 victorious | aux |
| 37 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 39 victorious | advmod |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 victorious | cop |
| 39 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Amycus | acl:relcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 encounters | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 encounters | det |
| 42 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 encounters | amod |
| 43 | encounters | encounter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 victorious | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Pollux | the best pugilist | Greece | tree rules | |||
| 2 | select | past · passive | Pollux | as Helle's champion | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as champion=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a contest | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prove | past | a contest | after a tremendous struggle | fatal property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | Amycus | all similar encounters | hitherto, victorious property | 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:pg22381:2162.
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