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title: To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity. Who acts: fables. 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 4

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To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity.

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**Who acts:** fables · **What happens:** belong, come down · **To what, where:** limited number, us, many channels

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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 (fables), 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:pg18442:2:4
# text = To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	hoar	hoar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present |  | the limited number of fables |  |  |  | to another class | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** | present · perfect | fables |  | us | many channels from hoar antiquity |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_Location through channel=Destination |

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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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