Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 227
The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights.
Who acts: poets, influence · What happens: describe, exercise, permit, share, mind, delight · To what, where: ethereal atmosphere, peculiar gladdening influence, minds, privileged beings, delights
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 (poets, influence), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poets | det |
| 2 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 describe | nsubj |
| 3 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 atmosphere | det |
| 5 | ethereal | ethereal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 atmosphere | amod |
| 6 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describe | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bright | mark |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 describe | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glistening | punct |
| 10 | glistening | glistening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bright | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refreshing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 refreshing | cc |
| 13 | refreshing | refreshing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bright | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exercising | punct |
| 15 | exercising | exercise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 describe | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 peculiar | det |
| 17 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gladdening | punct |
| 19 | gladdening | gladdening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 20 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exercising | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 minds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 minds | det |
| 23 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 influence | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hearts | cc |
| 25 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 minds | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 beings | case |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 beings | det |
| 28 | privileged | privileged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 beings | amod |
| 29 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 minds | nmod |
| 30 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 beings | acl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 share | mark |
| 32 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 permitted | xcomp |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 delights | nmod:poss |
| 34 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 share | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | the poets | this ethereal atmosphere | bright property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Theme | |||
| 2 | exercise | gerund | the poets not said here | peculiar gladdening influence | the minds of that privileged beings and hearts | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient | |||
| 3 | permit | participle | that privileged beings not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | influence's delights | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mind | that privileged beings | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | delight | influence | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:pg22381:227.
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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