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title: For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book. Who acts: I, encore. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 2

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For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book.

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**Who acts:** I, encore · **What happens:** rekindle, expect, respond, mark · **To what, where:** lights, I, formal way, fifteenth anniversary

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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 (I, encore), 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:pg2306:1:2
# text = For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	rekindled	rekindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	encore	encore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rekindle** | present · passive |  | the lights |  |  |  | for this event | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **expect** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | some formal way |  | to a encore | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to encore=Theme |
| 4 | **mark** | present | a encore | the fifteenth anniversary of the book |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent anniversary=Destination |

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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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