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title: The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, a… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights. Who acts: poets, influence. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 227

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The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights.

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**Who acts:** poets, influence · **What happens:** describe, exercise, permit, share, mind, delight · **To what, where:** ethereal atmosphere, peculiar gladdening influence, minds, privileged beings, delights

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:227
# text = The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	ethereal	ethereal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	glistening	glistening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	refreshing	refreshing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	exercising	exercise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	gladdening	gladdening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	privileged	privileged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
30	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | the poets | this ethereal atmosphere |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Theme |
| 2 | **exercise** | gerund | the poets *not said here* | peculiar gladdening influence |  | the minds of that privileged beings and hearts |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
| 3 | **permit** | participle |  | that privileged beings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | influence's delights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** |  |  | that privileged beings |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **delight** |  | influence |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:pg22381:227`.

**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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