Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 26

Each legend has its variants, but in every instance I have retained that particular version which seemed to me to be the most characteristic, and have given it without embellishment and without exaggeration.

Who acts: legend, I, particular version, most characteristic, purpose · What happens: have, retain, seem, be, give, vary · To what, where: variants, instance, me, most characteristic, purpose

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 (legend, I, particular version, most characteristic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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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