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title: Elaborating the incident afterward to her friends, she was pleased t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Elaborating the incident afterward to her friends, she was pleased to say that the appearance of the old man was somewhat picturesque. Who acts: Vermont, appearance. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 9

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Elaborating the incident afterward to her friends, she was pleased to say that the appearance of the old man was somewhat picturesque.

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**Who acts:** Vermont, appearance · **What happens:** elaborate, be, say · **To what, where:** incident, picturesque · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vermont, appearance), 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:pg2306:46:9
# text = Elaborating the incident afterward to her friends, she was pleased to say that the appearance of the old man was somewhat picturesque.
1	Elaborating	elaborate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	picturesque	picturesque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elaborate** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the incident |  |  |  | afterward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Vermont |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Vermont *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the appearance of the old man | picturesque |  |  |  | somewhat *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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