--- title: Though justly enraged at his deceitful conduct, Medea dissembled her… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics description: Though justly enraged at his deceitful conduct, Medea dissembled her wrath, and, feigning to be satisfied with this explanation, sent, as a wedding-gift to her rival, a magnificent robe of cloth-of-gold. Who acts: Medea, contest. 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/pg22381/2280/) [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/) / 2280 # Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2280 Though justly enraged at his deceitful conduct, Medea dissembled her wrath, and, feigning to be satisfied with this explanation, sent, as a wedding-gift to her rival, a magnificent robe of cloth-of-gold. **Who acts:** Medea, contest · **What happens:** enrage, dissemble, feign, be, send, conduct · **To what, where:** deceitful conduct, wrath, magnificent robe 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 (Medea, contest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:2280 # text = Though justly enraged at his deceitful conduct, Medea dissembled her wrath, and, feigning to be satisfied with this explanation, sent, as a wedding-gift to her rival, a magnificent robe of cloth-of-gold. # 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 Though though SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 justly justly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 enraged enrage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 deceitful deceitful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 conduct conduct NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 Medea Medea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 dissembled dissemble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 feigning feign VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 rival rival NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 43 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enrage** | participle | Medea *not said here* | | | contest's deceitful conduct | | justly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **dissemble** | past | Medea | Medea's wrath | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feign** | gerund | | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with this explanation; satisfied *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **send** | past | Medea *not said here* | a magnificent robe of cloth of gold | | | | as a wedding gift to Medea's rival | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | | 6 | **conduct** | | contest | | | | | | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:pg22381:2280`. **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…, 2265](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2265/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 2300](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2300/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/)