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Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 14

In 490 BC the Athenians beat a Persian army at Marathon; the story of a runner racing to Athens with the news is a legend told much later.

Who acts: Athenians, story · What happens: beat, be, tell · To what, where: Persian army, legend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Athenians, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

casenummodobldetnsubjdetamodobjcaseoblpunctdetnsubjcasedetcompoundnmodcasenmodcasedetnmodcopdetparataxisacladvmodadvmodpunctrootInADP490NUMBCPROPNtheDETAtheniansPROPNbeatVERBaDETPersianADJarmyNOUNatADPMarathonPROPN;PUNCTtheDETstoryNOUNofADPaDETrunnerNOUNracingNOUNtoADPAthensPROPNwithADPtheDETnewsNOUNisAUXaDETlegendNOUNtoldVERBmuchADVlaterADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 BCcase
2490490NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card3 BCnummod
3BCBCPROPNNumber=Sing6 beatobl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Atheniansdet
5AtheniansAthenianPROPNNumber=Plur6 beatnsubj
6beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 armydet
8PersianPersianADJDegree=Pos9 armyamod
9armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing6 beatobj
10atatADP_11 Marathoncase
11MarathonMarathonPROPNNumber=Sing6 beatobl
12;;PUNCT_14 storypunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 storydet
14storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing26 legendnsubj
15ofofADP_18 racingcase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 racingdet
17runnerrunnerNOUNNumber=Sing18 racingcompound
18racingracingNOUNNumber=Sing14 storynmod
19totoADP_20 Athenscase
20AthensAthensPROPNNumber=Sing18 racingnmod
21withwithADP_23 newscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 newsdet
23newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing18 racingnmod
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 legendcop
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 legenddet
26legendlegendNOUNNumber=Sing6 beatparataxis
27toldtellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 legendacl
28muchmuchADV_29 lateradvmod
29laterlateADVDegree=Cmp27 toldadvmod
30..PUNCT_6 beatpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beatpastthe Atheniansa Persian armyat Marathon; in 490 BCvn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Patient in bc=Topic
2is apresentthe story of a runner racing to Athens with the newsa legendtree rules
3tell speech: assertparticiplea legend not said herelate propertyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:14.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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