--- title: In 490 BC the Athenians beat a Persian army at Marathon; the story o… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:14 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson # annotation = 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 490 490 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Athenians Athenian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Persian Persian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 9 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Marathon Marathon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 racing racing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Athens Athens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 27 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | past | the Athenians | a Persian army | | | | at Marathon; in 490 BC | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Patient in bc=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | the story of a runner racing to Athens with the news | a legend | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | a legend *not said here* | | | | late *property* | vn 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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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