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title: The form of the stories, as recounted in the Tupi and Mundurucu' lan… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The form of the stories, as recounted in the Tupi and Mundurucu' languages, seems to show that they were originally formed in those languages or have long been adopted in them. Who acts: form. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its depen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 62

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The form of the stories, as recounted in the Tupi and Mundurucu' languages, seems to show that they were originally formed in those languages or have long been adopted in them.

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**Who acts:** form · **What happens:** recount, seem, show, form, adopt · **To what, where:** form, Tupi languages, stories, languages · **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 (form), 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:pg2306:1:62
# text = The form of the stories, as recounted in the Tupi and Mundurucu' languages, seems to show that they were originally formed in those languages or have long been adopted in them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	recounted	recount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	Tupi	Tupi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Mundurucu	Mundurucu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recount** *speech: other* | participle |  | the form of the stories *not said here* |  | the Tupi languages |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the form of the stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | the form of the stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **form** | past · passive |  | stories *= story* |  | that languages |  | originally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **adopt** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in stories *= story*; long *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | the stories |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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