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title: It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong. Who acts: history, most. 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 7

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It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong.

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**Who acts:** history, most · **What happens:** be, contain, belong · **To what, where:** fifty stories, present volume

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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 (history, most), 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:pg18442:2:7
# text = It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | history |  |  |  |  | to this last class | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | the fifty stories *not said here* |  | the present volume |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in volume=Location |
| 3 | **belong** | present | most of the fifty stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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