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title: *1 So far as I know, "Bango" is a meaningless term, introduced on ac… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: *1 So far as I know, "Bango" is a meaningless term, introduced on account of its sonorous ruggedness. Who acts: I, Bango. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 82

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\*1 So far as I know, "Bango" is a meaningless term, introduced on account of its sonorous ruggedness.

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**Who acts:** I, Bango · **What happens:** know, be, introduce, account · **To what, where:** meaningless term, account, sonorous ruggedness

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bango), 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:pg2306:41:82
# text = *1 So far as I know, "Bango" is a meaningless term, introduced on account of its sonorous ruggedness.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	discourse	_	_
3	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Bango	Bango	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	meaningless	meaningless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sonorous	sonorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ruggedness	ruggedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Bango | a meaningless term |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **introduce** | participle |  | a meaningless term *not said here* |  | account of account's sonorous ruggedness |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | account's sonorous ruggedness |  |  |  |  | nom account «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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