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title: The story of the Rabbit and the Fox, as told by the Southern negroes… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of the Rabbit and the Fox, as told by the Southern negroes, is artistically dramatic in this: it progresses in an orderly way from a beginning to a well-defined conclusion, and is full of striking episodes that suggest the culmination. Who acts: story, race, episodes. A sentence of «Uncle 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 96

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The story of the Rabbit and the Fox, as told by the Southern negroes, is artistically dramatic in this: it progresses in an orderly way from a beginning to a well-defined conclusion, and is full of striking episodes that suggest the culmination.

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**Who acts:** story, race, episodes · **What happens:** tell, be, progress, define, strike, suggest · **To what, where:** story, this, orderly way, episodes, culmination · **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 (story, race, episodes), 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:pg2306:1:96
# text = The story of the Rabbit and the Fox, as told by the Southern negroes, is artistically dramatic in this: it progresses in an orderly way from a beginning to a well-defined conclusion, and is full of striking episodes that suggest the culmination.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	artistically	artistically	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	progresses	progress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	orderly	orderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
44	episodes	episode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	culmination	culmination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 story of the Rabbit and the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Southern negroes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the story of the Rabbit and the Fox |  |  | this |  | artistically, dramatic *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **progress** | present | race |  |  | a orderly way from a beginning |  | to a defined conclusion | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **define** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **strike** | gerund |  | episodes |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent episode=Patient |
| 7 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | episodes | the culmination |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent culmination=Topic |

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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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