Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2332
The hide of the animal he wore ever afterwards over his shoulders, and the head served him as a helmet.
Who acts: Poseidon, head · What happens: wear, serve · To what, where: hide, shoulders, Poseidon
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, head), 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 hide | det |
| 2 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wore | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hide | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wore | nsubj |
| 7 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 wore | advmod |
| 9 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 wore | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 shoulders | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wore | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 served | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | nsubj |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wore | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 served | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 helmet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 helmet | det |
| 21 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Poseidon | the hide of the animal | Poseidon's shoulders | ever | afterwards property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hide=Source | |
| 2 | serve | past | the head | Poseidon | as a helmet | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Duration as helmet=Attribute |
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:pg22381:2332.
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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