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title: It is said that the first work of Hephaestus was a most ingenious th… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is said that the first work of Hephaestus was a most ingenious throne of gold, with secret springs, which he presented to Hera. Who acts: first work, Hephaestus. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependen
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 940

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It is said that the first work of Hephaestus was a most ingenious throne of gold, with secret springs, which he presented to Hera.

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**Who acts:** first work, Hephaestus · **What happens:** say, be, present, work · **To what, where:** anger, ingenious throne, Hera · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (first work, Hephaestus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:940
# text = It is said that the first work of Hephaestus was a most ingenious throne of gold, with secret springs, which he presented to Hera.
# 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	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	csubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Hera	Hera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | anger |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the first work of Hephaestus | a ingenious throne |  |  | spring | of gold | tree rules |
| 3 | **present** | past | Hephaestus | a ingenious throne | Hera |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to hera=Recipient |
| 4 | **work** |  | Hephaestus |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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:pg22381:940`.

**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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