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title: All the story-tellers in the world were in-vit-ed to his palace; and… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: All the story-tellers in the world were in-vit-ed to his palace; and some of them told tales that were very long indeed. Who acts: story tellers, some, tales. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 5

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All the story-tellers in the world were in-vit-ed to his palace; and some of them told tales that were very long indeed.

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**Who acts:** story tellers, some, tales · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** vit ed, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story tellers, some, tales), 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:pg18442:45:5
# text = All the story-tellers in the world were in-vit-ed to his palace; and some of them told tales that were very long indeed.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vit	vit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all story tellers in the world |  |  | vit ed |  | to matter's palace | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | some | tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | tales |  |  |  |  | indeed, long *property* | tree rules |

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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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