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title: This pass was guarded by Le-on'i-das, the King of the Spartans, with… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: This pass was guarded by Le-on'i-das, the King of the Spartans, with three hundred Spartan soldiers. Who acts: Le on'i das. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 10

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This pass was guarded by Le-on'i-das, the King of the Spartans, with three hundred Spartan soldiers.

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**Who acts:** Le on'i das · **What happens:** guard · **To what, where:** pass

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:39:10
# text = This pass was guarded by Le-on'i-das, the King of the Spartans, with three hundred Spartan soldiers.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	on'i	on'i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	das	da	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Spartans	Spartan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	Spartan	spartan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past · passive | Le on'i das | this pass |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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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