--- title: But although the king treated him with marked respect and honour he… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics description: But although the king treated him with marked respect and honour he refused, nevertheless, to give him the hand of his daughter, fearing for her a similar fate to that which had befallen Megara. Who acts: king, Poseidon. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2484/) [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/) / 2484 # Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2484 But although the king treated him with marked respect and honour he refused, nevertheless, to give him the hand of his daughter, fearing for her a similar fate to that which had befallen Megara. **Who acts:** king, Poseidon · **What happens:** treat, mark, refuse, not give, fear, befall · **To what, where:** Poseidon, hand, similar fate, Megara 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 (king, Poseidon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:2484 # text = But although the king treated him with marked respect and honour he refused, nevertheless, to give him the hand of his daughter, fearing for her a similar fate to that which had befallen Megara. # 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 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 although although SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 fearing fear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nmod _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 befallen befall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 Megara Megara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **treat** | past | the king | | Poseidon | | | with marked respect and honour | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with respect=Theme | | 2 | **mark** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **refuse** | past | Poseidon | | | | | nevertheless *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | Poseidon *not said here* | the hand of Poseidon's daughter | Poseidon | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=Theme | | 5 | **fear** | gerund | Poseidon *not said here* | a similar fate | | | | for Eurystheus; to that | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus for she=Attribute | | 6 | **befall** | past · perfect | | Megara | | | | | 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:pg22381:2484`. **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…, 2411](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2411/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 2518](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2518/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/)