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title: There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorpo… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. Who acts: numerous honored stories, race, our, one. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 1

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There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education.

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**Who acts:** numerous honored stories, race, our, one · **What happens:** be, honor, become, incorporate, think, race · **To what, where:** indispensable part, race

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (numerous honored stories, race, our, one), 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:pg18442:2:1
# text = There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	indispensable	indispensable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	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 | **does** | present | numerous honored stories |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** | present · perfect | numerous honored stories |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **incorporate** | participle | numerous honored stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the literature and thought of our race | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent into literature=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | our race | a indispensable part |  |  |  | of one's education | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** |  |  | our race |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **race** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **educate** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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