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title: Athamas, king of Boeotia, had married Nephele, a cloud-nymph, and th… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2112

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Athamas, king of Boeotia, had married Nephele, a cloud-nymph, and their children were Helle and Phryxus.

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**Who acts:** Athamas, children · **What happens:** marry, be · **To what, where:** Nephele, Helle

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:2112
# text = Athamas, king of Boeotia, had married Nephele, a cloud-nymph, and their children were Helle and Phryxus.
# 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	Athamas	Athamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Boeotia	Boeotia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	Nephele	Nephele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	Helle	Helle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Phryxus	Phryxus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · perfect | Athamas | Nephele |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nephele=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | nymphs's children | Helle and Phryxus |  |  |  |  | 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:pg22381:2112`.

**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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