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title: And yet Le-on-i-das and his Spartans held their ground. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet Le-on-i-das and his Spartans held their ground. 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 14

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And yet Le-on-i-das and his Spartans held their ground.

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**Who acts:** Le on i das · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** ground

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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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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:1150`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:39:14
# text = And yet Le-on-i-das and his Spartans held their ground.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
3	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	on	on	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	i	i	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	das	das	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Spartans	Spartan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | Le on i das and handful's Spartans | das's ground |  |  | yet |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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