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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 6

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And out of the confusion, and while I am trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest, saying "You have made some of us happy."

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**Who acts:** I, You · **What happens:** try, speak, seem, hear, lift, say · **To what, where:** right word, confusion, voice, rest, some · **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 (I, You), 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:pg2306:1:6
# text = And out of the confusion, and while I am trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest, saying "You have made some of us happy."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	ccomp	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the right word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | present | I |  |  | the confusion |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lift** | participle |  | a voice *not said here* |  | the rest |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent above rest=Destination |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | some |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Product |

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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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