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title: The exterior of the building was of bright gold, which the continual… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: The exterior of the building was of bright gold, which the continual wash of the waters preserved untarnished; in the interior, lofty and graceful columns supported the gleaming dome. Who acts: exterior, continual wash, lofty columns. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E
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# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 978

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The exterior of the building was of bright gold, which the continual wash of the waters preserved untarnished; in the interior, lofty and graceful columns supported the gleaming dome.

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**Who acts:** exterior, continual wash, lofty columns · **What happens:** be, preserve, support, gleam · **To what, where:** bright gold, gleaming dome, interior

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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 (exterior, continual wash, lofty columns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:978
# text = The exterior of the building was of bright gold, which the continual wash of the waters preserved untarnished; in the interior, lofty and graceful columns supported the gleaming dome.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exterior	exterior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
19	untarnished	untarnished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	amod	_	_
32	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the exterior of the building |  |  |  |  | of bright gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | past | the continual wash of the waters | bright gold |  |  |  | untarnished *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **support** | past | lofty columns | the gleaming dome |  | the interior |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dome=Stimulus |
| 4 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:pg22381:978`.

**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.

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