Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 1

There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education.

Who acts: numerous honored stories, race, our, one · What happens: be, honor, become, incorporate, think, race · To what, where: indispensable part, race

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 (numerous honored stories, race, our, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 honored	obl:unmarked
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 become	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 stories	acl:relcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 incorporated	advmod
12	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 become	xcomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 literature	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 literature	det
15	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 incorporated	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
17	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 literature	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 race	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 race	nmod:poss
20	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 part	nsubj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 knowledge	det
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 part	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knowledge	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 part	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 part	det
28	indispensable	indispensable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 part	amod
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 race	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 education	case
31	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 education	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 one	case
33	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 part	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	numerous honored stories		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	honor	participle				time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	present · perfect	numerous honored stories					tree rules
4	incorporate	participle	numerous honored stories not said here				into the literature and thought of our race	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent into literature=Co-Patient
5	is a	present	our race	a indispensable part			of one's education	tree rules
6	think			our race				nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	race		our					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent
8	educate		one					nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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