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title: The slender vine, with its leaves and ten-drils still upon it, trail… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The slender vine, with its leaves and ten-drils still upon it, trailed to the ground. Who acts: slender vine. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 36

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The slender vine, with its leaves and ten-drils still upon it, trailed to the ground.

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**Who acts:** slender vine · **What happens:** trail · **To what, where:** ground

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slender vine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:734`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:25:36
# text = The slender vine, with its leaves and ten-drils still upon it, trailed to the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	drils	dril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	trailed	trail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trail** | past | the slender vine |  |  | the ground |  | with vine's leaves upon garden and ten drils | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent to ground=Trajectory |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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