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title: Only in this shape, and with all the local allusions, would it be po… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Only in this shape, and with all the local allusions, would it be possible to adequately represent the shrewd observations, the curious retorts, the homely thrusts, the quaint comments, and the humorous philosophy of the race of which Uncle Remus is the type. Who acts: it, humorous philosophy. A sen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 119

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Only in this shape, and with all the local allusions, would it be possible to adequately represent the shrewd observations, the curious retorts, the homely thrusts, the quaint comments, and the humorous philosophy of the race of which Uncle Remus is the type.

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**Who acts:** it, humorous philosophy · **What happens:** be, represent · **To what, where:** shrewd observations, type

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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 (it, humorous philosophy), 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:pg2306:1:119
# text = Only in this shape, and with all the local allusions, would it be possible to adequately represent the shrewd observations, the curious retorts, the homely thrusts, the quaint comments, and the humorous philosophy of the race of which Uncle Remus is the type.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	adequately	adequately	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	retorts	retort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	homely	homely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	thrusts	thrust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
45	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | it |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | to-infinitive |  | the shrewd observations and the curious retorts and the homely thrusts and the quaint comments |  |  |  | adequately *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot observation=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the humorous philosophy | the type |  |  |  | of the race; of all local allusions and the type | 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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