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title: FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Opening, sentence 2

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FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD

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**What happens:** retell · **To what, where:** FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg18442:1:2
# text = FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD
1	FIFTY	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	FAMOUS	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	STORIES	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	RETOLD	retell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retell** | participle |  | FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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