Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 9

Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse.

Who acts: Some, others · What happens: have, be, give, intend, amuse · To what, where: slight historical value, point, certain great moral truths, products

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 (Some, others), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 value	det
4	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 value	amod
5	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 value	amod
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 useful	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 useful	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 useful	cop
10	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	parataxis
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 giving	mark
12	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 useful	advcl
13	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giving	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 truths	case
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 truths	amod
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 truths	amod
17	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 truths	amod
18	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 giving	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 products	punct
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 products	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 products	cop
22	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	conj
23	solely	solely	ADV	_	26 fancy	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fancy	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fancy	det
26	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 products	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intended	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 intended	cc
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 intended	aux:pass
30	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	parataxis
31	only	only	ADV	_	33 amuse	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 amuse	mark
33	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 intended	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Some	a slight historical value			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient
2	is	present	some			useful property	tree rules
3	give	gerund	some not said here	point	certain great moral truths		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent point=Theme to truth=Recipient
4	is a	present	others	products		of the fancy	tree rules
5	intend	present · passive					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: clause=Topic
6	amuse not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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