Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 223
He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality.
Who acts: Pyrrha · What happens: watch, reward, punish, want · To what, where: truth, perjury, hospitality
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 (Pyrrha), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watches | nsubj |
| 2 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watches | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 solicitude | case |
| 6 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 solicitude | amod |
| 7 | solicitude | solicitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watches | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rewarding | punct |
| 9 | rewarding | reward | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 watches | advcl |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rewarding | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 charity | punct |
| 12 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 truth | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 uprightness | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uprightness | cc |
| 15 | uprightness | uprightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 truth | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 punishing | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 punishing | cc |
| 18 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 19 punishing | advmod |
| 19 | punishing | punish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rewarding | conj |
| 20 | perjury | perjury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 punishing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cruelty | punct |
| 22 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perjury | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 want | cc |
| 25 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perjury | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hospitality | case |
| 27 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 want | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | Pyrrha | over men = man; with tender solicitude | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | ||||
| 2 | reward | gerund | Pyrrha not said here | truth and charity and uprightness | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | punish | gerund | Pyrrha not said here | perjury and cruelty and want of hospitality | severely property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perjury=Patient | |||
| 4 | want | hospitality | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:pg22381:223.
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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