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title: Care has been taken to exclude everything that is not strictly withi… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Care has been taken to exclude everything that is not strictly within the limits of probability; hence there is here no trespassing upon the domain of the fairy tale, the fable, or the myth. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories., with
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 11

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Care has been taken to exclude everything that is not strictly within the limits of probability; hence there is here no trespassing upon the domain of the fairy tale, the fable, or the myth.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** take, exclude, not be, be, trespass · **To what, where:** Care, everything

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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 (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:pg18442:2:11
# text = Care has been taken to exclude everything that is not strictly within the limits of probability; hence there is here no trespassing upon the domain of the fairy tale, the fable, or the myth.
1	Care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	exclude	exclude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	trespassing	trespass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | Care |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **exclude** | to-infinitive |  | everything |  |  |  | within the limits of probability | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer everything=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | strictly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present |  |  |  | here; there |  | hence *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **trespass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | upon the domain of the fairy tale and the fable | 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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