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title: But it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be mor… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be more popular than the old one. Who acts: survival, new edition. 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 15

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But it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be more popular than the old one.

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**Who acts:** survival, new edition · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mystery, all

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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, new edition), 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:pg2306:1:15
# text = But it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be more popular than the old one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | survival | no mystery |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | this new edition |  |  |  |  | than the old one; popular *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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