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title: As to the songs, the reader is warned that it will be found difficul… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the songs, the reader is warned that it will be found difficult to make them conform to the ordinary rules of versification, nor is it intended that they should so conform. Who acts: readers, point, versification. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 111

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As to the songs, the reader is warned that it will be found difficult to make them conform to the ordinary rules of versification, nor is it intended that they should so conform.

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**Who acts:** readers, point, versification · **What happens:** warn, find, make, conform, be, rule · **To what, where:** reader, point, readers, ordinary rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (readers, point, versification), 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:pg2306:1:111
# text = As to the songs, the reader is warned that it will be found difficult to make them conform to the ordinary rules of versification, nor is it intended that they should so conform.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	conform	conform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	versification	versification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	conform	conform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · passive |  | the reader |  |  |  | as the songs | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | future · passive |  | point |  |  |  | difficult *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **conform** | infinitive | readers *= reader* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ordinary rules of versification *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to rule=Goal |
| 5 | **is** | present | point |  |  |  |  | intend *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **conform** *not said to happen* | should | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **rule** |  | versification |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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