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title: His theory rested on rather a slender basis, yet it must be confesse… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: His theory rested on rather a slender basis, yet it must be confessed that he had one or two strong points. Who acts: Vambagen. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 65

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His theory rested on rather a slender basis, yet it must be confessed that he had one or two strong points.

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**Who acts:** Vambagen · **What happens:** rest, confess, have · **To what, where:** theory, slender basis, one strong points

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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:pg2306:1:65
# text = His theory rested on rather a slender basis, yet it must be confessed that he had one or two strong points.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	confessed	confess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | participle · passive |  | Vambagen's theory |  | a slender basis |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on basis=Location |
| 2 | **confess** | must · passive |  | theory |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Vambagen | one strong points |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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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