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title: There was only one way by which the Per-sian army could go into Gree… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred., with its dependency tr
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 9

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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.

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

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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 (one way, Per sian army, that), 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:pg18442:39:9
# text = 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.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Per	Per	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sian	sian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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