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description: He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality. Who acts: Pyrrha. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its d
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 223

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He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality.

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**Who acts:** Pyrrha · **What happens:** watch, reward, punish, want · **To what, where:** truth, perjury, hospitality

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:223
# text = He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality.
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	solicitude	solicitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rewarding	reward	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	uprightness	uprightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	punishing	punish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
20	perjury	perjury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | Pyrrha |  |  |  |  | over men *= man*; with tender solicitude | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location |
| 2 | **reward** | gerund | Pyrrha *not said here* | truth and charity and uprightness |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 3 | **punish** | gerund | Pyrrha *not said here* | perjury and cruelty and want of hospitality |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perjury=Patient |
| 4 | **want** |  |  | hospitality |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:pg22381:223`.

**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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