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title: Uncle Remus describes that reconstruction in his Story of the War, a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Remus describes that reconstruction in his Story of the War, and I may as well add here for the benefit of the curious that that story is almost literally true. Who acts: Uncle, I, story. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its depe
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 121

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Uncle Remus describes that reconstruction in his Story of the War, and I may as well add here for the benefit of the curious that that story is almost literally true.

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**Who acts:** Uncle, I, story · **What happens:** describe, add, be · **To what, where:** reconstruction, Story

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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 (Uncle, I, story), 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:pg2306:1:121
# text = Uncle Remus describes that reconstruction in his Story of the War, and I may as well add here for the benefit of the curious that that story is almost literally true.
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | Uncle | that reconstruction |  | Uncle's Story of the War |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reconstruction=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | may | I |  |  | here |  | for the benefit | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | that story |  |  |  |  | almost, literally, true *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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