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title: I venture to append it here, with some necessary verbal and phonetic… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I venture to append it here, with some necessary verbal and phonetic alterations, in order to give the reader an idea of the difference between the dialect of the cotton plantations, as used by Uncle Remus, and the lingo in vogue on the rice plantations and Sea Islands of the South Atlantic States: 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 74

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I venture to append it here, with some necessary verbal and phonetic alterations, in order to give the reader an idea of the difference between the dialect of the cotton plantations, as used by Uncle Remus, and the lingo in vogue on the rice plantations and Sea Islands of the South Atlantic States:

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** venture, append, give, use · **To what, where:** Magazine, reader

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:1:74
# text = I venture to append it here, with some necessary verbal and phonetic alterations, in order to give the reader an idea of the difference between the dialect of the cotton plantations, as used by Uncle Remus, and the lingo in vogue on the rice plantations and Sea Islands of the South Atlantic States:
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	venture	venture	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	append	append	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	verbal	verbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	phonetic	phonetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	alterations	alteration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	fixed	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	lingo	lingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	vogue	vogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with some necessary verbal alterations | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **append** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Magazine |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | the reader |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient idea=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Uncle Remus | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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