--- title: Greek myths tell of heroes like Heracles with his twelve labours, Pe… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: Greek myths tell of heroes like Heracles with his twelve labours, Perseus and Medusa, and Theseus and the Minotaur; modern films and books, like Disney's Hercules or Percy Jackson, change these old myths a lot to make new stories. Who acts: Greek myths, modern films. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greek myths, modern films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:13 # text = Greek myths tell of heroes like Heracles with his twelve labours, Perseus and Medusa, and Theseus and the Minotaur; modern films and books, like Disney's Hercules or Percy Jackson, change these old myths a lot to make new stories. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 heroes hero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Heracles Heracles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 labours labour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Perseus Perseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Medusa Medusa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Theseus Theseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Minotaur Minotaur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 Disney Disney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 Hercules Hercules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Percy Percy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 Jackson Jackson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 36 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 44 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Greek myths | | | | | of heroes like Heracles with Heracles's twelve labours | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | present | modern films like Disney's Hercules or Percy and books | this old myths | | | | a lot *obl:unmarked* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | modern films like Disney's Hercules or Percy and books *not said here* | new stories | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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