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Berens, sentence 458 It was a few feet in height and was built of stone; the fire was placed on the top of it, and served the double purpose of preparing the daily meals, and consuming the family sacrifices. **Who acts:** gift, double purpose · **What happens:** be, build, place, serve, prepare, consume · **To what, where:** few feet, height, fire, top, double purpose, daily meals 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 (gift, double purpose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:458 # text = It was a few feet in height and was built of stone; the fire was placed on the top of it, and served the double purpose of preparing the daily meals, and consuming the family sacrifices. # 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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 of of SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 preparing prepare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 consuming consume VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 sacrifices sacrifice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | gift | a few feet | | height | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | past · passive | gift *not said here* | | | | | of stone | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | | 3 | **place** | past · passive | | the fire | | the top of gift | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on top=Destination | | 4 | **serve** | past | | the double purpose | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Attribute | | 5 | **prepare** | gerund | the double purpose *not said here* | the daily meals | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | | 6 | **consume** | gerund | the double purpose *not said here* | the family sacrifices | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Asset | 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:pg22381:458`. **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…, 441](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/441/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 861](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/861/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/)