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title: It was solemnized exclusively by women, who, dressed in white garmen… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was solemnized exclusively by women, who, dressed in white garments, wandered about with torches in their hands, to represent the search of the goddess for her daughter Proserpine. Who acts: women. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 1969

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It was solemnized exclusively by women, who, dressed in white garments, wandered about with torches in their hands, to represent the search of the goddess for her daughter Proserpine.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** solemnize, dress, wander, represent, search · **To what, where:** place, white garments, search, goddess

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:1969
# text = It was solemnized exclusively by women, who, dressed in white garments, wandered about with torches in their hands, to represent the search of the goddess for her daughter Proserpine.
# 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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	solemnized	solemnize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	Proserpine	Proserpine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solemnize** | past · passive | women | place |  |  |  | exclusively *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | participle | women *not said here* |  |  | white garments |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wander** | past | women |  |  |  |  | with torches in torches's hands; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **represent** | to-infinitive | women *not said here* | the search of the goddess |  |  |  | for law's daughter | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot search=Theme for daughter=Attribute |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | the goddess |  |  |  | for law's daughter | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

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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:pg22381:1969`.

**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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