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Berens, sentence 2162 Pollux, who was the best pugilist in Greece, was selected as their champion, and a contest took place, which, after a tremendous struggle, proved fatal to Amycus, who had hitherto been victorious in all similar encounters. **Who acts:** Pollux, contest, Amycus · **What happens:** be, select, take, prove · **To what, where:** best pugilist, Greece, Pollux, place, similar encounters 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 (Pollux, contest, Amycus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:2162 # text = Pollux, who was the best pugilist in Greece, was selected as their champion, and a contest took place, which, after a tremendous struggle, proved fatal to Amycus, who had hitherto been victorious in all similar encounters. # 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 Pollux Pollux PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 pugilist pugilist NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 acl:relcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 selected select VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 champion champion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 contest contest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 tremendous tremendous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 struggle struggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 31 fatal fatal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Amycus Amycus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 hitherto hitherto ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 39 victorious victorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 acl:relcl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 42 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 encounters encounter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Pollux | the best pugilist | | Greece | | | tree rules | | 2 | **select** | past · passive | | Pollux | | | | as Helle's champion | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as champion=Attribute | | 3 | **take** | past | a contest | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 4 | **prove** | past | a contest | | | | after a tremendous struggle | fatal *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past · perfect | Amycus | | | all similar encounters | | hitherto, victorious *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:pg22381:2162`. **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/). - ← previous: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 2112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2112/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 2265](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2265/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/)