Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 4

To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity.

Who acts: fables · What happens: belong, come down · To what, where: limited number, us, many channels

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 (fables), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 class	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belong	obl
4	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
6	limited	limited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 number	amod
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belong	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fables	case
9	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 number	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 come	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fables	acl:relcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 channels	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 channels	amod
18	channels	channel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 antiquity	case
20	hoar	hoar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 antiquity	amod
21	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 channels	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 belong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present		the limited number of fables				to another class	tree rules
2	come down	present · perfect	fables		us	many channels from hoar antiquity		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location through channel=Destination

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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