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title: Among the Lacedaemonians, however, we find no vestiges of these stat… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the Lacedaemonians, however, we find no vestiges of these stately temples, for they were specially enjoined by a law of Lycurgus to serve the gods with as little outlay as possible. Who acts: we, law. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tale
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1850

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Among the Lacedaemonians, however, we find no vestiges of these stately temples, for they were specially enjoined by a law of Lycurgus to serve the gods with as little outlay as possible.

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**Who acts:** we, law · **What happens:** find, enjoin, serve · **To what, where:** vestiges, gods

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:1850
# text = Among the Lacedaemonians, however, we find no vestiges of these stately temples, for they were specially enjoined by a law of Lycurgus to serve the gods with as little outlay as possible.
# 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	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lacedaemonians	Lacedaemonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	vestiges	vestige	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	enjoined	enjoin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Lycurgus	Lycurgus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	outlay	outlay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | no vestiges of this stately temples |  |  |  | among the Lacedaemonians; however *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vestige=Topic |
| 2 | **enjoin** | past · passive | a law of Lycurgus | vestiges *= vestige* |  |  |  | specially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive | a law of Lycurgus *not said here* |  | the gods |  |  | with little outlay | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent god=Recipient with outlay=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:pg22381:1850`.

**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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