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title: No sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he pr… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he precipitated himself into the deep, and became a sea-god. 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 pragmat
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1048

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No sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he precipitated himself into the deep, and became a sea-god.

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**Who acts:** Triton · **What happens:** do, obey, precipitate, become · **To what, where:** this, irresistible impulse, Triton, deep, sea god

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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:pg22381:1048
# text = No sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he precipitated himself into the deep, and became a sea-god.
# 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	No	no	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	impulse	impulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **obey** | gerund | Triton *not said here* | a irresistible impulse |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impulse=Theme |
| 3 | **precipitate** | past | Triton | Triton |  | the deep |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | past | Triton *not said here* | a sea god |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:pg22381:1048`.

**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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