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title: Measured by the material developments that have compressed years of… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Measured by the material developments that have compressed years of experience into the space of a day, thus increasing the possibilities of life, if not its beauty, fifteen years constitute the old age of a book. Who acts: material developments, fifteen years. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 13

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Measured by the material developments that have compressed years of experience into the space of a day, thus increasing the possibilities of life, if not its beauty, fifteen years constitute the old age of a book.

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**Who acts:** material developments, fifteen years · **What happens:** measure, compress, increase, constitute · **To what, where:** space, possibilities, beauty

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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 (material developments, fifteen years), 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:pg2306:1:13
# text = Measured by the material developments that have compressed years of experience into the space of a day, thus increasing the possibilities of life, if not its beauty, fifteen years constitute the old age of a book.
1	Measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	developments	development	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	compressed	compress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	possibilities	possibility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	constitute	constitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the material developments | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **compress** | present · perfect | the material developments |  |  | the space of a day | year |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into space=Product |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund |  | the possibilities of life |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer possibility=Patient |
| 4 | **constitute** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | fifteen years | harm's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Pivot |

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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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