Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 3103
When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Laestrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates.
Who acts: opinions, fierce cannibals · What happens: arrive, discover, set, govern, race · To what, where: city, foot, land, fierce cannibals
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 (opinions, fierce cannibals), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 discovered | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 discovered | nsubj |
| 8 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 consternation | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 consternation | nmod:poss |
| 11 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 discovered | ccomp |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Laestrygones | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Laestrygones | det |
| 22 | Laestrygones | Laestrygones | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 land | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 race | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 race | det |
| 25 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Laestrygones | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cannibals | case |
| 27 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cannibals | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gigantic | cc |
| 29 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fierce | conj |
| 30 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 race | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 governed | punct |
| 32 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cannibals | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 king | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 king | nmod:poss |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 governed | obl |
| 36 | Antiphates | Antiphates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 king | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | opinions = opinion | the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | opinions = opinion | to opinions's consternation | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | set | past · perfect | opinions = opinion | foot | the land of the Laestrygones | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in land=Destination | |||
| 4 | govern | participle | fierce cannibals not said here | by opinions's king | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | race | fierce cannibals | nom race «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:pg22381:3103.
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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