Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2300
But in this emergency Poseidon came to the aid of the son of Tantalus.
Who acts: Poseidon · What happens: come · To what, where: emergency
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 (Poseidon), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 emergency | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 emergency | det |
| 4 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | Poseidon | Poseidon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 aid | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 aid | det |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aid | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Tantalus | case |
| 14 | Tantalus | Tantalus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Poseidon | this emergency | to the aid of the son of Tantalus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location |
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:pg22381:2300.
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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