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title: There can be no doubt that some of them, found among the negroes and… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: There can be no doubt that some of them, found among the negroes and the Indians, had a common origin. Who acts: doubt, some. 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 58

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There can be no doubt that some of them, found among the negroes and the Indians, had a common origin.

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**Who acts:** doubt, some · **What happens:** be, find, have · **To what, where:** doubt, common origin

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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 (doubt, some), 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:pg2306:1:58
# text = There can be no doubt that some of them, found among the negroes and the Indians, had a common origin.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | no doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | some | no doubt *not said here* |  |  |  | among the negroes and the Indians | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | some *not said here* | a common origin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=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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