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title: I am persuaded that this fact led Mr. Sidney Lanier, who is thorough… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I am persuaded that this fact led Mr. Sidney Lanier, who is thoroughly familiar with the metrical peculiarities of negro songs, into the exhaustive investigation which has resulted in the publication of his scholarly treatise on The Science of English Verse. Who acts: fact, Sidney, exhaustive invest
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 115

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I am persuaded that this fact led Mr. Sidney Lanier, who is thoroughly familiar with the metrical peculiarities of negro songs, into the exhaustive investigation which has resulted in the publication of his scholarly treatise on The Science of English Verse.

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**Who acts:** fact, Sidney, exhaustive investigation · **What happens:** persuade, lead, be, result, publish · **To what, where:** I, Sidney, publication, scholarly treatise

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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 (fact, Sidney, exhaustive investigation), 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:pg2306:1:115
# text = I am persuaded that this fact led Mr. Sidney Lanier, who is thoroughly familiar with the metrical peculiarities of negro songs, into the exhaustive investigation which has resulted in the publication of his scholarly treatise on The Science of English Verse.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Sidney	Sidney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Lanier	Lanier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	negro	negro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	exhaustive	exhaustive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	investigation	investigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	scholarly	scholarly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	treatise	treatise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Science	Science	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Verse	Verse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | past | this fact | Sidney  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sidney=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Sidney  Mr. |  |  |  |  | with the metrical peculiarities of negro songs; familiar, thoroughly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **result** | present · perfect | the exhaustive investigation |  |  | the publication of fact's scholarly treatise on the Science of English Verse |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in publication=Location |
| 5 | **publish** |  |  | fact's scholarly treatise on the Science of English Verse |  |  |  |  | nom publication «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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