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description: A striking confirmation of this, in connection with our immediate subject, is offered by Mr. Harris' sequel volume, _Nights with Uncle Remus_. Who acts: sequel volume. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 19

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A striking confirmation of this, in connection with our immediate subject, is offered by Mr. Harris' sequel volume, \_Nights with Uncle Remus\_.

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**Who acts:** sequel volume · **What happens:** strike, offer, confirm · **To what, where:** striking confirmation, this

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sequel volume), 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:pg7128:56:19
# text = A striking confirmation of this, in connection with our immediate subject, is offered by Mr. Harris' sequel volume, _Nights with Uncle Remus_.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Harris	Harris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	sequel	sequel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | present · passive | Harris  Mr.'s sequel volume | a striking confirmation of this and connection with our immediate subject |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **confirm** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom confirmation «cognition 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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