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title: They are written, and are intended to be read, solely with reference… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: They are written, and are intended to be read, solely with reference to the regular and invariable recurrence of the caesura, as, for instance, the first stanza of the Revival Hymn: Who acts: caesura. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with i
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 112

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They are written, and are intended to be read, solely with reference to the regular and invariable recurrence of the caesura, as, for instance, the first stanza of the Revival Hymn:

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**Who acts:** caesura · **What happens:** write, intend, read, recur · **To what, where:** readers

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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 (caesura), 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:pg2306:1:112
# text = They are written, and are intended to be read, solely with reference to the regular and invariable recurrence of the caesura, as, for instance, the first stanza of the Revival Hymn:
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	invariable	invariable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	recurrence	recurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	caesura	caesura	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Revival	revival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · passive |  | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with reference to the regular recurrence of the caesura; as instance | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as instance=Attribute |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **recur** |  | the caesura |  |  |  |  |  | nom recurrence «event 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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