Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 57

Many tales are told of his ad-ven-tures, some of them true and some of them untrue.

What happens: tell · To what, where: Many tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tales	amod
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 tures	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tures	nmod:poss
7	ad	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tures	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ad	punct
9	ven	ven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tures	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ven	punct
11	tures	ture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 true	punct
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 true	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 some	nmod
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 untrue	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 untrue	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 some	nmod
21	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 true	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		Many tales				of man's ad ven tures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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