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title: "It is really singular," remarked a commencement orator, "that not e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is really singular," remarked a commencement orator, "that not even an ordinary holiday--a holiday, it seems to me, that ought to arouse all the latent instincts of patriotism in the bosom of American citizens--can occur without embroiling some of our most valuable citizens. Who acts: editor, it
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 6

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"It is really singular," remarked a commencement orator, "that not even an ordinary holiday--a holiday, it seems to me, that ought to arouse all the latent instincts of patriotism in the bosom of American citizens--can occur without embroiling some of our most valuable citizens.

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**Who acts:** editor, it, that, ordinary holiday · **What happens:** be, remark, seem, arouse, occur, embroil · **To what, where:** me, latent instincts, bosom, that, some, American citizens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (editor, it, that, ordinary holiday), 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:pg2306:67:6
# text = "It is really singular," remarked a commencement orator, "that not even an ordinary holiday--a holiday, it seems to me, that ought to arouse all the latent instincts of patriotism in the bosom of American citizens--can occur without embroiling some of our most valuable citizens.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	orator	orator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
30	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	arouse	arouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	latent	latent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	instincts	instinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	patriotism	patriotism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
48	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	embroiling	embroil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
50	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
53	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	54	advmod	_	_
54	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | editor |  |  |  |  | singular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | it |  | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **arouse** *in a quote* | ought | that | all latent instincts of patriotism |  | the bosom of American citizens |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus instinct=Experiencer |
| 5 | **occur** *in a quote* | can | a ordinary holiday and a holiday | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **embroil** *in a quote* | gerund | a ordinary holiday and a holiday *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bosom** *in a quote* |  |  | American citizens |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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