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title: Indeed, save in the remote country districts, the dialect of the leg… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, save in the remote country districts, the dialect of the legends has nearly disappeared. Who acts: you, dialect. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 117

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Indeed, save in the remote country districts, the dialect of the legends has nearly disappeared.

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**Who acts:** you, dialect · **What happens:** save, disappear · **To what, where:** remote country districts

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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 (you, dialect), 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:pg2306:1:117
# text = Indeed, save in the remote country districts, the dialect of the legends has nearly disappeared.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the remote country districts |  | indeed *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **disappear** | present · perfect | the dialect of the legends | the remote country districts *not said here* |  |  |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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