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title: It seems to me to be to a certain extent allegorical, albeit such an… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems to me to be to a certain extent allegorical, albeit such an interpretation may be unreasonable. Who acts: It, interpretation. 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 97

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It seems to me to be to a certain extent allegorical, albeit such an interpretation may be unreasonable.

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**Who acts:** It, interpretation · **What happens:** seem, be · **To what, where:** me

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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 (It, interpretation), 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:pg2306:1:97
# text = It seems to me to be to a certain extent allegorical, albeit such an interpretation may be unreasonable.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	allegorical	allegorical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	albeit	albeit	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to a certain extent; allegorical *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | may | such interpretation |  |  |  |  | unreasonable *property* | tree rules |

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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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