Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2280
Though justly enraged at his deceitful conduct, Medea dissembled her wrath, and, feigning to be satisfied with this explanation, sent, as a wedding-gift to her rival, a magnificent robe of cloth-of-gold.
Who acts: Medea, contest · What happens: enrage, dissemble, feign, be, send, conduct · To what, where: deceitful conduct, wrath, magnificent robe
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 (Medea, contest), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 3 enraged | mark |
| 2 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 3 enraged | advmod |
| 3 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dissembled | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 conduct | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 6 | deceitful | deceitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conduct | amod |
| 7 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enraged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 enraged | punct |
| 9 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dissembled | nsubj |
| 10 | dissembled | dissemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dissembled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sent | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feigning | punct |
| 16 | feigning | feign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 sent | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 satisfied | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 satisfied | cop |
| 19 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feigning | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 explanation | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 explanation | det |
| 22 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 satisfied | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feigning | punct |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dissembled | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gift | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 gift | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 gift | det |
| 28 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gift | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 wedding | punct |
| 30 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 rival | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 rival | nmod:poss |
| 33 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gift | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 robe | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 robe | det |
| 36 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 robe | amod |
| 37 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 cloth | case |
| 39 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 robe | nmod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 gold | punct |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 gold | case |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 gold | punct |
| 43 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cloth | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dissembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | participle | Medea not said here | contest's deceitful conduct | justly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | dissemble | past | Medea | Medea's wrath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feign | gerund | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | with this explanation; satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | send | past | Medea not said here | a magnificent robe of cloth of gold | as a wedding gift to Medea's rival | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||
| 6 | conduct | contest | nom conduct «act transitive»: 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:pg22381:2280.
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