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title: *1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: *1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from the whites, their origin is very remote. Who acts: origin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 9

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\*1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from the whites, their origin is very remote.

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**Who acts:** origin · **What happens:** be, catch · **To what, where:** adaptations, songs, whites

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (origin), 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:pg2306:42:9
# text = *1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from the whites, their origin is very remote.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	discourse	_	_
3	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	adaptations	adaptation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this adaptations |  | songs and the negroes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | present · perfect · passive |  | this adaptations |  | the whites |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from white=Source |
| 3 | **is** | present | adaptations's origin |  |  |  |  | remote *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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