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title: The most natural solution would be to suppose that they originated i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The most natural solution would be to suppose that they originated in Africa, and were carried to South America by the negro slaves. Who acts: natural solution, stories, negro slaves. 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 59

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The most natural solution would be to suppose that they originated in Africa, and were carried to South America by the negro slaves.

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**Who acts:** natural solution, stories, negro slaves · **What happens:** be, originate, carry · **To what, where:** Africa, South America · **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 (natural solution, stories, negro slaves), 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:pg2306:1:59
# text = The most natural solution would be to suppose that they originated in Africa, and were carried to South America by the negro slaves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	solution	solution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	originated	originate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the natural solution |  |  |  |  | suppose *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **originate** | past | stories *= story* |  |  | Africa |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | past · passive | the negro slaves |  | South America |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to america=Destination |

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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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