---
title: Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Who acts: Some, others. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories., with its depen
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [Concerning These Stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/) / 9

# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Some, others · **What happens:** have, be, give, intend, amuse · **To what, where:** slight historical value, point, certain great moral truths, products

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Some, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg18442:2:9
# text = Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	truths	truth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
23	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Some | a slight historical value |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | some *not said here* | point | certain great moral truths |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent point=Theme to truth=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | others | products |  |  |  | of the fancy | tree rules |
| 5 | **intend** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 6 | **amuse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/8/)
- next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/10/)
- ↑ back to [Concerning These Stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/)