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title: "TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NE-CES-SI-TY REQUIRES." — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NE-CES-SI-TY REQUIRES." Who acts: SI TY. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 23

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"TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NE-CES-SI-TY REQUIRES."

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**Who acts:** SI TY · **What happens:** take, require · **To what, where:** NE CES

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SI TY), 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:pg18442:42:23
# text = "TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NE-CES-SI-TY REQUIRES."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	TO	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	BE	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	TAKEN	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	AS	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	OFTEN	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	AS	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	NE	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	CES	ce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	SI	si	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	TY	ty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	REQUIRES	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as NE CES; often *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as ce=Attribute |
| 2 | **require** *in a quote* | present | SI TY | NE CES *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ce=Precondition |

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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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