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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 8

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This final moral sentiment, which was altogether an impromptu utterance, and which was delivered with the air of one who addresses a vast but invisible audience of young ladies in white dresses and blue sashes, seemed to add to the embarrassment of Uncle Remus, and at the same time to make an explanation necessary.

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**Who acts:** This, final moral sentiment · **What happens:** sentiment, be, deliver, address, seem, add · **To what, where:** impromptu utterance, vast audience, explanation, Uncle Remus

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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 (This, final moral sentiment), 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:pg2306:67:8
# text = This final moral sentiment, which was altogether an impromptu utterance, and which was delivered with the air of one who addresses a vast but invisible audience of young ladies in white dresses and blue sashes, seemed to add to the embarrassment of Uncle Remus, and at the same time to make an explanation necessary.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	impromptu	impromptu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	addresses	address	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sashes	sash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
39	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl	_	_
56	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sentiment** |  | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | final moral sentiment | a impromptu utterance |  |  |  | altogether *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** | past · passive |  | a impromptu utterance |  |  |  | with the air of one | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **address** | present |  | a vast audience of young ladies in white dresses and blue sashes |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Destination |
| 5 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the embarrassment of Uncle Remus | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to embarrassment=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a explanation |  |  |  | necessary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset explanation=Product |
| 8 | **embarrass** |  |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | nom embarrassment «feeling 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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