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title: To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are deriv… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews. 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 5

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To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews.

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**What happens:** belong, derive · **To what, where:** charming stories, olden times, literatures

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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: 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:pg18442:2:5
# text = To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	third	third	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	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	literatures	literature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Hebrews	Hebrew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 charming stories of olden times |  |  |  | to a third | tree rules |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | olden times |  | the literatures of ancient peoples such the Greeks and the Hebrews |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from literature=Material |

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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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