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title: At any rate, I trust I have been successful in presenting what must… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 30

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At any rate, I trust I have been successful in presenting what must be, at least to a large portion of American readers, a new and by no means unattractive phase of negro character--a phase which may be considered a curiously sympathetic supplement to Mrs. Stowe's wonderful defense of slavery as it existed in the South.

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**Who acts:** I, no, phase · **What happens:** trust, be, present, mean, consider, exist · **To what, where:** rate, unattractive phase, phase, South

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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, no, phase), 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:pg2306:1:30
# text = At any rate, I trust I have been successful in presenting what must be, at least to a large portion of American readers, a new and by no means unattractive phase of negro character--a phase which may be considered a curiously sympathetic supplement to Mrs. Stowe's wonderful defense of slavery as it existed in the South.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	presenting	present	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	unattractive	unattractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	phase	phase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	negro	negro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	phase	phase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	curiously	curiously	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	supplement	supplement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	xcomp	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
50	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Stowe	Stowe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	's	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present | I |  |  | any rate |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **present** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a large portion at least of American readers | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | must | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | no | unattractive phase of negro character |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Topic |
| 6 | **consider** | may · passive |  | a phase |  |  |  | to Mrs. Stowe's wonderful defense of slavery | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 7 | **exist** | past | phase |  |  | the South |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |

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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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