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title: Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles A. Lane, by whom eight or te… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles A. Lane, by whom eight or ten of the stories were suggested. Who acts: Acknowledgments. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 15

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Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles A. Lane, by whom eight or ten of the stories were suggested.

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**Who acts:** Acknowledgments · **What happens:** be, suggest · **To what, where:** Mrs. Charles, eight

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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 (Acknowledgments), 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:pg18442:2:15
# text = Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles A. Lane, by whom eight or ten of the stories were suggested.
1	Acknowledgments	acknowledgment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Lane	Lane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	conj	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Acknowledgments |  | Mrs. Charles and A. Lane |  |  | due *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past · passive |  | eight of the stories |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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