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title: No typographical combination or description could do justice to the… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: No typographical combination or description could do justice to the guttural sonorousness--the peculiar intonation--which Uncle Remus imparted to this combination. Who acts: typographical combination, Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 38

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No typographical combination or description could do justice to the guttural sonorousness--the peculiar intonation--which Uncle Remus imparted to this combination.

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**Who acts:** typographical combination, Uncle · **What happens:** do, impart · **To what, where:** justice, peculiar intonation

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (typographical combination, Uncle), 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:pg2306:15:38
# text = No typographical combination or description could do justice to the guttural sonorousness--the peculiar intonation--which Uncle Remus imparted to this combination.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	typographical	typographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	guttural	guttural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sonorousness	sonorousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	intonation	intonation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	imparted	impart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | no typographical combination or description | justice |  |  |  | to the guttural sonorousness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **impart** | past | Uncle | the peculiar intonation |  |  |  | to this combination | 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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