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title: These three were Acheron (sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), and Styx (… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: These three were Acheron (sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), and Styx (intense darkness), the sacred stream which flowed nine times round these realms. Who acts: three, sacred stream. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg w
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1278

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These three were Acheron (sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), and Styx (intense darkness), the sacred stream which flowed nine times round these realms.

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**Who acts:** three, sacred stream · **What happens:** be, flow · **To what, where:** Acheron

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:1278
# text = These three were Acheron (sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), and Styx (intense darkness), the sacred stream which flowed nine times round these realms.
# 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	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Acheron	Acheron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Cocytus	Cocytus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Styx	Styx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
17	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	round	round	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this three | Acheron and Cocytus and Styx |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | past | the sacred stream |  |  |  | time | round this realms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:pg22381:1278`.

**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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