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description: No explanation could convey an adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation which Uncle Remus brought to bear upon this wonderful word. Who acts: explanation, Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 3

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No explanation could convey an adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation which Uncle Remus brought to bear upon this wonderful word.

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**Who acts:** explanation, Uncle · **What happens:** convey, bring, bear · **To what, where:** adequate idea, intonation

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (explanation, 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:pg2306:17:3
# text = No explanation could convey an adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation which Uncle Remus brought to bear upon this wonderful word.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	intonation	intonation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **convey** | could | no explanation | a adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Uncle | the intonation and pronunciation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon this wonderful word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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