Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2518

But her cries were heard by her husband, who without hesitation shot Nessus through the heart with one of his poisoned arrows.

Who acts: husband, Eurystheus · What happens: hear, shoot, poison, cry · To what, where: cries, Nessus, heart

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 (husband, Eurystheus), 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	_	5 heard	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cries	nmod:poss
3	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux:pass
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shot	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 shot	nsubj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 hesitation	case
12	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shot	obl
13	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 husband	acl:relcl
14	Nessus	Nessus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shot	obj
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 heart	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heart	det
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shot	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 shot	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 arrows	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arrows	nmod:poss
22	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 arrows	amod
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive	Eurystheus's husband	Eurystheus's cries			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	shoot	past	Eurystheus's husband	Nessus	the heart	without hesitation; with one of Poseidon's poisoned arrows	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nessus=Theme through heart=Destination
3	poison	participle					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cry		Eurystheus				nom cry «communication 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:pg22381:2518.

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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