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title: It is but fair to say that ethnological considerations formed no par… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: It is but fair to say that ethnological considerations formed no part of the undertaking which has resulted in the publication of this volume. Who acts: ethnological considerations, undertaking. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dep
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 33

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It is but fair to say that ethnological considerations formed no part of the undertaking which has resulted in the publication of this volume.

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**Who acts:** ethnological considerations, undertaking · **What happens:** be, say, form, result, publish · **To what, where:** part, publication, volume · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ethnological considerations, undertaking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:30`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:1:33
# text = It is but fair to say that ethnological considerations formed no part of the undertaking which has resulted in the publication of this volume.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	but	but	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	ethnological	ethnological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	considerations	consideration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | but, fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **form** | past | ethnological considerations | no part of the undertaking |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 4 | **result** | present · perfect | the undertaking |  |  | the publication of this volume |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in publication=Location |
| 5 | **publish** |  |  | this volume |  |  |  |  | nom publication «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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