Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 14
And yet Le-on-i-das and his Spartans held their ground.
Who acts: Le on i das · What happens: hold · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Le on i das), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:1150): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 held | advmod |
| 3 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 das | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 on | punct |
| 5 | on | on | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 das | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 i | punct |
| 7 | i | i | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 das | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 das | punct |
| 9 | das | das | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 held | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Spartans | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Spartans | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Spartans | Spartan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 das | conj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ground | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Le on i das and handful's Spartans | das's ground | yet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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