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title: Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed little influence, being altogether a minor divinity. Who acts: Triton. 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 pragmatic
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1039

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Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed little influence, being altogether a minor divinity.

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**Who acts:** Triton · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** only son, little influence, minor divinity

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:1039
# text = Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed little influence, being altogether a minor divinity.
# 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	Triton	Triton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Amphitrite	Amphitrite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
18	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Triton | the only son |  |  |  | of Poseidon and Amphitrite | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | past | Triton | little influence |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot influence=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | Triton *not said here* | a minor divinity |  |  |  | altogether *property* | tree rules |

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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:pg22381:1039`.

**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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