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title: There have been other editions--how many I do not remember--but this… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: There have been other editions--how many I do not remember--but this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter: new type, new pictures, and new binding. Who acts: I, this. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 3

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There have been other editions--how many I do not remember--but this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter: new type, new pictures, and new binding.

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**Who acts:** I, this · **What happens:** have, be, not remember · **To what, where:** other editions, many, new one

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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, this), 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:pg2306:1:3
# text = There have been other editions--how many I do not remember--but this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter: new type, new pictures, and new binding.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	editions	edition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	except	except	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	binding	binding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | other editions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **remember** | present · do-support | I | many |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | a new one |  |  |  |  | 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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