Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2635
After the death of Hippolyte Theseus sought the hand of Phaedra, the sister of his former bride Ariadne, to whom he became united.
Who acts: Theseus, Hippolyte · What happens: seek, become, die · To what, where: hand
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 (Theseus, Hippolyte), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sought | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hippolyte | case |
| 5 | Hippolyte | Hippolyte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sought | nsubj |
| 7 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sought | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Phaedra | case |
| 11 | Phaedra | Phaedra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sister | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sister | det |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Phaedra | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bride | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bride | nmod:poss |
| 17 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bride | amod |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sister | nmod |
| 19 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bride | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 united | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 became | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Phaedra | acl:relcl |
| 25 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 became | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Theseus | the hand of Phaedra | after the death of Hippolyte | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Theseus | united property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | Hippolyte | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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:pg22381:2635.
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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