Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 30

Thousands of years have passed since then; but men still like to tell the story of Leonidas and the brave three hundred who died for their country's sake.

Who acts: men, brave three hundred · What happens: pass, like, tell, die · To what, where: Thousands, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, brave three hundred), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 years	case
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	since	since	ADP	_	7 then	case
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 passed	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 like	cc
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 like	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Leonidas	case
18	Leonidas	Leonidas	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 story	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hundred	det
21	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hundred	amod
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 hundred	compound
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 died	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 sake	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 country	nmod:poss
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sake	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 country	case
30	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present · perfect · passive		Thousands of years			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	like	present	men		still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	men not said here	the story of Leonidas			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	die	past	the brave three hundred			for men's country's sake	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sake=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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