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title: Pompey Smash and his literary descendants, and different also from t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Pompey Smash and his literary descendants, and different also from the intolerable misrepresentations of the minstrel stage, but it is at least phonetically genuine. Who acts: dialect. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 28

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Pompey Smash and his literary descendants, and different also from the intolerable misrepresentations of the minstrel stage, but it is at least phonetically genuine.

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**Who acts:** dialect · **What happens:** be, misrepresent · **To what, where:** least, minstrel stage

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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 (dialect), 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:pg2306:1:28
# text = Pompey Smash and his literary descendants, and different also from the intolerable misrepresentations of the minstrel stage, but it is at least phonetically genuine.
1	Pompey	Pompey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Smash	Smash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	misrepresentations	misrepresentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obl	_	_
25	phonetically	phonetically	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | dialect |  |  | least |  | genuine, phonetically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **misrepresent** |  |  | the minstrel stage |  |  |  |  | nom misrepresentation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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