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title: The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and wo… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker. Who acts: animals. 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 every clause.
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1112

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The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** consecrate, be · **To what, where:** animals, animal, wolf

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:1112
# text = The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consecrate** | participle |  | the animals *not said here* | animal |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the animals | the wolf and horse and vulture and woodpecker |  |  |  |  | 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:pg22381:1112`.

**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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