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title: Proteus, more familiarly known as "The Old Man of the Sea," was a so… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proteus, more familiarly known as "The Old Man of the Sea," was a son of Poseidon, and gifted with prophetic power. Who acts: Proteus. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1034

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Proteus, more familiarly known as "The Old Man of the Sea," was a son of Poseidon, and gifted with prophetic power.

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**Who acts:** Proteus · **What happens:** know, be, gift · **To what, where:** Proteus, son

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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 (Proteus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:1034
# text = Proteus, more familiarly known as "The Old Man of the Sea," was a son of Poseidon, and gifted with prophetic power.
# source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18
1	Proteus	Proteus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	familiarly	familiarly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gifted	gift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Proteus *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Old Man of the Sea; familiarly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as man=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Proteus | a son |  |  |  | of Poseidon | tree rules |
| 3 | **gift** | participle | Proteus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with prophetic power | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:pg22381:1034`.

**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.

See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/).

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