Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 441
Schools were under her especial care, and schoolboys, therefore, had holidays during her festivals (the Greater Quinquatria), when they always brought a gift to their master, called the Minerval.
Who acts: Schools, schoolboys · What happens: be, have, bring, call · To what, where: especial care, holidays, gift, master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Schools, schoolboys), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 care | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | cop |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 care | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 care | nmod:poss |
| 5 | especial | especial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 care | amod |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 9 | schoolboys | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 had | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 therefore | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | conj |
| 14 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 festivals | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 festivals | nmod:poss |
| 17 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Quinquatria | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Quinquatria | det |
| 20 | Greater | Greater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Quinquatria | compound |
| 21 | Quinquatria | Quinquatria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 festivals | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Quinquatria | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 brought | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 brought | advmod |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 festivals | acl:relcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 gift | det |
| 29 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 master | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 called | punct |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 gift | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Minerval | det |
| 36 | Minerval | Minerval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 called | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Schools | ANTIOPE's especial care | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | schoolboys | holidays | during ANTIOPE's festivals | therefore property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Patient | ||
| 3 | bring | past | schoolboys = schoolboy | a gift | schoolboys's master | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to master=Destination | ||
| 4 | call | participle | a gift not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:pg22381:441.
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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