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title: The response of Uncle Remus led to the earnest recital of a piece of… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The response of Uncle Remus led to the earnest recital of a piece of unwritten history that must prove interesting to ethnologists. Who acts: response, unwritten history. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, with its dependen
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 3

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The response of Uncle Remus led to the earnest recital of a piece of unwritten history that must prove interesting to ethnologists.

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**Who acts:** response, unwritten history · **What happens:** lead, prove, recite · **To what, where:** piece

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (response, unwritten history), 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:pg2306:36:3
# text = The response of Uncle Remus led to the earnest recital of a piece of unwritten history that must prove interesting to ethnologists.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	recital	recital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	unwritten	unwritten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ethnologists	ethnologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the response of Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | to the earnest recital of a piece of unwritten history | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to recital=Patient |
| 2 | **prove** | must | unwritten history |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recite** |  |  | a piece of unwritten history |  |  |  |  | nom recital «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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