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title: Upon this point the author of Brazil and the Amazons, who is engaged… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this point the author of Brazil and the Amazons, who is engaged in making a critical and comparative study of these myth-stories, writes: A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 56

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Upon this point the author of Brazil and the Amazons, who is engaged in making a critical and comparative study of these myth-stories, writes:

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**What happens:** engage, make, write, study · **To what, where:** author, critical study, myth stories

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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: 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:pg2306:1:56
# text = Upon this point the author of Brazil and the Amazons, who is engaged in making a critical and comparative study of these myth-stories, writes:
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Amazons	Amazon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	critical	critical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
24	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | present · passive |  | the author of Brazil and the Amazons |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | a critical study of this myth stories |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset study=Product |
| 3 | **write** | present |  |  |  |  |  | upon this point | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **study** |  |  | this myth stories |  |  |  |  | nom study «act 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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