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title: But her cries were heard by her husband, who without hesitation shot… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: But her cries were heard by her husband, who without hesitation shot Nessus through the heart with one of his poisoned arrows. Who acts: husband, Eurystheus. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 2518

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But her cries were heard by her husband, who without hesitation shot Nessus through the heart with one of his poisoned arrows.

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**Who acts:** husband, Eurystheus · **What happens:** hear, shoot, poison, cry · **To what, where:** cries, Nessus, heart

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:2518
# text = But her cries were heard by her husband, who without hesitation shot Nessus through the heart with one of his poisoned arrows.
# 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	_	5	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Nessus	Nessus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive | Eurystheus's husband | Eurystheus's cries |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | Eurystheus's husband | Nessus |  | the heart |  | without hesitation; with one of Poseidon's poisoned arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nessus=Theme through heart=Destination |
| 3 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** |  | Eurystheus |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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:pg22381:2518`.

**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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