Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2484
But although the king treated him with marked respect and honour he refused, nevertheless, to give him the hand of his daughter, fearing for her a similar fate to that which had befallen Megara.
Who acts: king, Poseidon · What happens: treat, mark, refuse, not give, fear, befall · To what, where: Poseidon, hand, similar fate, Megara
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 (king, 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 | _ | 13 refused | cc |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 treated | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treated | nsubj |
| 5 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 refused | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 treated | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 respect | case |
| 8 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 respect | amod |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 honour | cc |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 respect | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 refused | nsubj |
| 13 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nevertheless | punct |
| 15 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 13 refused | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nevertheless | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 refused | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 daughter | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fearing | punct |
| 26 | fearing | fear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 refused | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fearing | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fate | det |
| 30 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fate | amod |
| 31 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fearing | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 that | case |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 fate | nmod |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 befallen | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 befallen | aux |
| 36 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 that | acl:relcl |
| 37 | Megara | Megara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 befallen | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | the king | Poseidon | with marked respect and honour | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with respect=Theme | |||
| 2 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | refuse | past | Poseidon | nevertheless property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not give | to-infinitive | Poseidon not said here | the hand of Poseidon's daughter | Poseidon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 5 | fear | gerund | Poseidon not said here | a similar fate | for Eurystheus; to that | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus for she=Attribute | |||
| 6 | befall | past · perfect | Megara | tree rules |
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:pg22381:2484.
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