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title: The animal stories told by the negroes in our Southern States and in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The animal stories told by the negroes in our Southern States and in Brazil were brought by them from Africa. Who acts: Brazil. 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 69

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The animal stories told by the negroes in our Southern States and in Brazil were brought by them from Africa.

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**Who acts:** Brazil · **What happens:** tell, bring · **To what, where:** animal stories, Africa · **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 (Brazil), 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:pg2306:1:69
# text = The animal stories told by the negroes in our Southern States and in Brazil were brought by them from Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the animal stories *not said here* |  |  |  | by the negroes in our Southern States and Brazil | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive | Brazil | the animal stories |  | Africa |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from africa=Initial\_Location |

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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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