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title: Such a survival might almost be said to be due to a tiny sluice of g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a survival might almost be said to be due to a tiny sluice of green sap under the gray bark. where it lies in the matter of this book, or what its source if, indeed, it be really there--is more of a mystery to my middle age than it was to my prime. Who acts: survival, book. A sentence of «Uncle
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 14

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Such a survival might almost be said to be due to a tiny sluice of green sap under the gray bark. where it lies in the matter of this book, or what its source if, indeed, it be really there--is more of a mystery to my middle age than it was to my prime.

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**Who acts:** survival, book · **What happens:** say, be, lie, source, matter · **To what, where:** survival, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (survival, book), 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:pg2306:1:14
# text = Such a survival might almost be said to be due to a tiny sluice of green sap under the gray bark. where it lies in the matter of this book, or what its source if, indeed, it be really there--is more of a mystery to my middle age than it was to my prime.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
10	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sluice	sluice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	nsubj	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
43	really	really	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
55	than	than	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | might · passive |  | such survival |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | due a tiny sluice; of green sap under the gray bark | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | survival |  |  | the matter of this book |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in matter=Location |
| 4 | **source** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | survival |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | survival *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a mystery to my middle age; more *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | survival |  |  |  |  | than my prime | tree rules |
| 8 | **matter** |  | this book |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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