Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 458
It was a few feet in height and was built of stone; the fire was placed on the top of it, and served the double purpose of preparing the daily meals, and consuming the family sacrifices.
Who acts: gift, double purpose · What happens: be, build, place, serve, prepare, consume · To what, where: few feet, height, fire, top, double purpose, daily meals
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 (gift, double purpose), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feet | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feet | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 height | case |
| 7 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feet | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 built | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feet | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feet | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 top | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 served | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 served | cc |
| 25 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 purpose | det |
| 27 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 purpose | amod |
| 28 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 served | obj |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 preparing | mark |
| 30 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 purpose | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 meals | det |
| 32 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meals | amod |
| 33 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 preparing | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 consuming | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 consuming | cc |
| 36 | consuming | consume | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 preparing | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sacrifices | det |
| 38 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sacrifices | compound |
| 39 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 consuming | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gift | a few feet | height | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | gift not said here | of stone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | the fire | the top of gift | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on top=Destination | ||||
| 4 | serve | past | the double purpose | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | prepare | gerund | the double purpose not said here | the daily meals | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 6 | consume | gerund | the double purpose not said here | the family sacrifices | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Asset |
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:pg22381:458.
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