Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 101

Curiously enough, I have found few negroes who will acknowledge to a stranger that they know anything of these legends; and yet to relate one of the stories is the surest road to their confidence and esteem.

Who acts: I, few negroes, ethnologists, one · What happens: find, acknowledge, know, relate, be, confide · To what, where: few negroes, stranger, anything, surest road

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, few negroes, ethnologists, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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