Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 15

In 480 BC King Leonidas with 300 Spartans and several thousand other Greeks held the narrow pass of Thermopylae against a huge Persian army for three days; in so narrow a place only a few enemies could fight at once.

Who acts: King Leonidas, few enemies · What happens: hold, fight, pass · To what, where: narrow pass, 480, narrow place, Thermopylae

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 (King Leonidas, few enemies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 480	case
2	480	480	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 held	obl
3	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	compound
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Leonidas	compound
5	Leonidas	Leonidas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Spartans	case
7	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 Spartans	nummod
8	Spartans	spartan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Leonidas	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Greeks	cc
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Greeks	amod
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 Greeks	nummod
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Greeks	amod
13	Greeks	greek	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Spartans	conj
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pass	det
16	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pass	amod
17	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Thermopylae	case
19	Thermopylae	Thermopylae	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pass	nmod
20	against	against	ADP	_	24 army	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 army	det
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 army	amod
23	Persian	Persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 army	amod
24	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 days	case
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 days	nummod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 held	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 place	case
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 narrow	advmod
31	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fight	obl
34	only	only	ADV	_	39 fight	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 enemies	det
36	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 enemies	amod
37	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 fight	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 fight	aux
39	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 held	parataxis
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 once	case
41	once	once	ADV	_	39 fight	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	King Leonidas with 300 Spartans and several thousand other Greeks	the narrow pass of Thermopylae	480	day	against a huge Persian army	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pass=Theme in 480=Location
2	fight	could	a few enemies		a narrow place			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass			Thermopylae				nom pass «act transitive»: of=patient

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:15.

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 ×3. 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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