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title: Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the l… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin; nearly all are the subjects of frequent allusions in poetry and prose and in the conversation 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 10

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Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin; nearly all are the subjects of frequent allusions in poetry and prose and in the conversation of educated people.

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**Who acts:** some, English people, educated people · **What happens:** derive, be, come, tell, converse · **To what, where:** Some, ancient sources, literature, us, ballads, subjects · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (some, English people, educated people), 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:pg18442:2:10
# text = Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin; nearly all are the subjects of frequent allusions in poetry and prose and in the conversation of educated people.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	educated	educated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present · passive |  | Some |  | ancient sources |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from source=Material |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the literature of many lands |  | current *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | some |  | us | the ballads and folk tales of the English people |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_Location through ballad=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of recent origin; few *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | all subjects |  |  |  | of frequent allusions in poetry and prose and the conversation of educated people | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** |  | the English people |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **converse** |  | educated people |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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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