--- title: He stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics description: He stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so grazed his vulnerable ankle against the point of a sharp rock, whereupon a mighty stream of blood gushed forth from the wound. Who acts: contest, mighty stream. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2265/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/) / 2265 # Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2265 He stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so grazed his vulnerable ankle against the point of a sharp rock, whereupon a mighty stream of blood gushed forth from the wound. **Who acts:** contest, mighty stream · **What happens:** stretch, do, graze, gush, point · **To what, where:** contest, full length, vulnerable ankle, wound, sharp rock 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 (contest, mighty stream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:2265 # text = He stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so grazed his vulnerable ankle against the point of a sharp rock, whereupon a mighty stream of blood gushed forth from the wound. # 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 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 in in SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 advcl _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 grazed graze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 vulnerable vulnerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB _ 33 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 gushed gush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 34 forth forth ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** | past | contest | contest | | full length | | upon the ground | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 2 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **graze** | past | contest *not said here* | contest's vulnerable ankle | | | | against the point of a sharp rock | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ankle=Experiencer | | 4 | **gush** | past | a mighty stream of blood | | | the wound | | forth, whereupon *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wound=Source | | 5 | **point** | | | a sharp rock | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:pg22381:2265`. **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…, 2162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2162/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 2280](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2280/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/)