--- title: The Brave Three Hundred. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: The Brave Three Hundred., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: All Greece was in danger. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / The Brave Three Hundred. # The Brave Three Hundred. The Brave Three Hundred. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 30 sentences and 411 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/1/) — All Greece was in danger. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/2/) — A mighty army, led by the great King of Persia, had come from the east. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/3/) — It was marching along the seashore, and in a few days would be in Greece. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/4/) — The great king had sent mes-sen-gers into every city and state, bidding them give him water and earth in token that the land and the sea were his. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/5/) — But they said,-- - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/6/) — "No: we will be free." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/7/) — And so there was a great stir through-out all the land. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/8/) — The men armed themselves, and made haste to go out and drive back their foe; and the women staid at home, weeping and waiting, and trembling with fear. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/9/) — 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. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/10/) — This pass was guarded by Le-on'i-das, the King of the Spartans, with three hundred Spartan soldiers. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/11/) — Soon the Persian soldiers were seen coming. — checked by a teacher - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/12/) — There were so many of them that no man could count them. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/13/) — How could a handful of men hope to stand against so great a host? - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/14/) — And yet Le-on-i-das and his Spartans held their ground. — checked by a teacher - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/15/) — They had made up their minds to die at their post. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/16/) — Some one brought them word that there were so many Persians that their arrows dark-ened the sun. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/17/) — "So much the better," said the Spartans; "we shall fight in the shade." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/18/) — Bravely they stood in the narrow pass. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/19/) — Bravely they faced their foes. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/20/) — To Spartans there was no such thing as fear. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/21/) — The Persians came forward, only to meet death at the points of their spears. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/22/) — But one by one the Spartans fell. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/23/) — At last their spears were broken; yet still they stood side by side, fighting to the last. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/24/) — Some fought with swords, some with daggers, and some with only their fists and teeth. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/25/) — All day long the army of the Persians was kept at bay. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/26/) — But when the sun went down, there was not one Spartan left alive. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/27/) — Where they had stood there was only a heap of the slain, all bristled over with spears and arrows. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/28/) — Twenty thousand Persian soldiers had fallen before that handful of men. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/29/) — And Greece was saved. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/30/) — 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. - ← previous: [Diogenes the Wise Man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/) - next →: [Socrates and His House.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)