Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 940

It is said that the first work of Hephaestus was a most ingenious throne of gold, with secret springs, which he presented to Hera.

Who acts: first work, Hephaestus · What happens: say, be, present, work · To what, where: anger, ingenious throne, Hera · 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 (first work, Hephaestus), 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	3 said	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 throne	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throne	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Hephaestus	case
9	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 throne	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 throne	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 ingenious	advmod
13	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 throne	amod
14	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	csubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throne	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 springs	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 springs	case
19	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 springs	amod
20	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 throne	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 presented	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 presented	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 presented	nsubj
24	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 throne	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Hera	case
26	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 presented	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		anger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
2	is a	past	the first work of Hephaestus	a ingenious throne		spring	of gold	tree rules
3	present	past	Hephaestus	a ingenious throne	Hera			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to hera=Recipient
4	work		Hephaestus					nom work «act 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:pg22381:940.

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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