Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 9

There was only one way by which the Per-sian army could go into Greece on that side, and that was by a narrow pass between the mountains and the sea.

Who acts: one way, Per sian army, that · What happens: be, go · To what, where: Greece

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 (one way, Per sian army, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 way	nummod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 go	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 army	det
9	Per	Per	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 army	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Per	punct
11	sian	sian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 army	amod
12	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 Greece	case
16	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pass	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pass	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 pass	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pass	cop
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 pass	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pass	det
26	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pass	amod
27	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 mountains	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountains	det
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pass	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sea	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mountains	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one way	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	could	the Per sian army	Greece	by one way; on that side	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into greece=Initial_Location
3	is	past	that		by a narrow pass; between the mountains and the sea	tree rules

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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