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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 6

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A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people.

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**Who acts:** fourth class, legendary tales, later origin · **What happens:** include, have, know, tell · **To what, where:** legendary tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fourth class, legendary tales, later origin), 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:pg18442:2:6
# text = A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	episodes	episode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | a fourth class | the legendary tales of a later origin or the history of a people |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the legendary tales of a later origin or the history of a people |  |  |  |  | for classes's subjects in the lives of known heroes and famous men and certain romantic episodes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tell** |  | a later origin |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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