Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 978

The exterior of the building was of bright gold, which the continual wash of the waters preserved untarnished; in the interior, lofty and graceful columns supported the gleaming dome.

Who acts: exterior, continual wash, lofty columns · What happens: be, preserve, support, gleam · To what, where: bright gold, gleaming dome, interior

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 (exterior, continual wash, lofty columns), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 exterior	det
2	exterior	exterior	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gold	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 building	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 building	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exterior	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gold	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 gold	case
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gold	amod
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 preserved	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 preserved	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wash	det
13	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wash	amod
14	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 preserved	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 waters	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waters	det
17	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wash	nmod
18	preserved	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gold	acl:relcl
19	untarnished	untarnished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 preserved	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 supported	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 interior	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 interior	det
23	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 supported	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 interior	punct
25	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 columns	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 graceful	cc
27	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lofty	conj
28	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 supported	nsubj
29	supported	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gold	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dome	det
31	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 dome	amod
32	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 supported	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the exterior of the building			of bright gold	tree rules
2	preserve	past	the continual wash of the waters	bright gold		untarnished property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary
3	support	past	lofty columns	the gleaming dome	the interior		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dome=Stimulus
4	gleam	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:pg22381:978.

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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