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title: They are certainly found among the Red Negroes; but, unfortunately f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: They are certainly found among the Red Negroes; but, unfortunately for the African theory, it is equally certain that they are told by savage Indians of the Amazons Valley, away up on the Tapajos, Red Negro, and Tapura. Who acts: theory. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 60

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They are certainly found among the Red Negroes; but, unfortunately for the African theory, it is equally certain that they are told by savage Indians of the Amazons Valley, away up on the Tapajos, Red Negro, and Tapura.

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**Who acts:** theory · **What happens:** find, be, tell · **To what, where:** stories, savage Indians · **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 (theory), 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:pg2306:1:60
# text = They are certainly found among the Red Negroes; but, unfortunately for the African theory, it is equally certain that they are told by savage Indians of the Amazons Valley, away up on the Tapajos, Red Negro, and Tapura.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	iobj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Amazons	Amazon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	compound	_	_
32	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
35	up	up	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Tapajos	Tapajos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Negro	Negro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Tapura	Tapura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  | among the Red Negroes; certainly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | theory |  |  |  |  | certain, equally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | stories *= story* | savage Indians of the Amazons Valley |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient indian=Topic |

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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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