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title: It is not a very well written poem, and yet everybody has read it, a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not a very well written poem, and yet everybody has read it, and thousands of people have learned it by heart. Who acts: bi, written poem, heart. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 83

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It is not a very well written poem, and yet everybody has read it, and thousands of people have learned it by heart.

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**Who acts:** bi, written poem, heart · **What happens:** write, not be, read, learn · **To what, where:** written poem, everybody, thousands

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bi, written poem, heart), 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:pg18442:53:83
# text = It is not a very well written poem, and yet everybody has read it, and thousands of people have learned it by heart.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | bi | a written poem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | present · perfect · passive | a written poem *not said here* | everybody |  |  | yet |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Topic |
| 4 | **learn** | present · perfect · passive | heart | thousands of people |  |  |  |  | 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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