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title: It is believed, therefore, that the present collection will be found… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It is believed, therefore, that the present collection will be found to possess an educative value which will commend it as a supplementary reader in the middle primary grades at school. Who acts: present collection, educative value. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Conc
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 13

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It is believed, therefore, that the present collection will be found to possess an educative value which will commend it as a supplementary reader in the middle primary grades at school.

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**Who acts:** present collection, educative value · **What happens:** believe, find, possess, commend · **To what, where:** reading, present collection, educative value, middle primary grades

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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 (present collection, educative value), 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:pg18442:2:13
# text = It is believed, therefore, that the present collection will be found to possess an educative value which will commend it as a supplementary reader in the middle primary grades at school.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	educative	educative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	commend	commend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	supplementary	supplementary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	grades	grade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **believe** | present · passive |  | reading |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | future · passive |  | the present collection |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | to-infinitive | the present collection *not said here* | a educative value |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot value=Theme |
| 4 | **commend** | future | a educative value | reading |  | the middle primary grades at school |  | as a supplementary reader | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as reader=Attribute |

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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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