Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 942

Hephaestus thus revenged himself on his mother for the cruelty she had always displayed towards him, on account of his want of comeliness and grace.

Who acts: Hephaestus, Hera · What happens: revenge, display, account, want · To what, where: Hephaestus, cruelty, account, want, comeliness

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 (Hephaestus, Hera), 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	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 revenged	nsubj
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 revenged	advmod
3	revenged	revenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 revenged	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 revenged	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 cruelty	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cruelty	det
10	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 revenged	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 displayed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 displayed	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 displayed	advmod
14	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cruelty	acl:relcl
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 displayed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 account	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 account	case
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 displayed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 want	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 want	nmod:poss
22	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 account	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 comeliness	case
24	comeliness	comeliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 want	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grace	cc
26	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comeliness	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 revenged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	revenge	past	Hephaestus	Hephaestus		on Hephaestus's mother; for the cruelty; thus property	tree rules
2	display	past · perfect	Hera	the cruelty not said here	account of Hephaestus's want of comeliness and grace	towards Hephaestus; always property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cruelty=Theme
3	account			Hephaestus's want of comeliness and grace			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	want		Hephaestus	comeliness and grace			nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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:pg22381:942.

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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