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title: These prejudices were forcibly, as well as ludicrously, illustrated… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: These prejudices were forcibly, as well as ludicrously, illustrated in Atlanta recently. Who acts: prejudices. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 2

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These prejudices were forcibly, as well as ludicrously, illustrated in Atlanta recently.

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**Who acts:** prejudices · **What happens:** be, illustrate · **To what, where:** Atlanta

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prejudices), 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:pg2306:49:2
# text = These prejudices were forcibly, as well as ludicrously, illustrated in Atlanta recently.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	prejudices	prejudice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	9	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
9	ludicrously	ludicrously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | this prejudices *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forcibly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **illustrate** | participle | this prejudices |  |  | Atlanta |  | ludicrously, recently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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