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title: Vambagen, the Brazilian historian (now Visconde de Rio Branco), trie… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Vambagen, the Brazilian historian (now Visconde de Rio Branco), tried to prove a relationship between the ancient Egyptians, or other Turanian stock, and the Tupi Indians. Who acts: Vambagen. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its depend
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 64

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Vambagen, the Brazilian historian (now Visconde de Rio Branco), tried to prove a relationship between the ancient Egyptians, or other Turanian stock, and the Tupi Indians.

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**Who acts:** Vambagen · **What happens:** try, prove · **To what, where:** Tupi Indians, relationship

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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 (Vambagen), 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:pg2306:1:64
# text = Vambagen, the Brazilian historian (now Visconde de Rio Branco), tried to prove a relationship between the ancient Egyptians, or other Turanian stock, and the Tupi Indians.
1	Vambagen	Vambagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Brazilian	Brazilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	Visconde	Visconde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	Branco	Branco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Turanian	turanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Tupi	Tupi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Vambagen | the Tupi Indians |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **prove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Vambagen *not said here* | a relationship or other Turanian stock |  |  |  | between the ancient Egyptians | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme |

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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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