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title: Mr. Smith also gives the story of how the tortoise outran the deer,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Smith also gives the story of how the tortoise outran the deer, which is identical as to incident with Uncle Remus's story of how Brer Tarrypin outran Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Smith, tortoise, deer, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 39

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Mr. Smith also gives the story of how the tortoise outran the deer, which is identical as to incident with Uncle Remus's story of how Brer Tarrypin outran Brer Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Smith, tortoise, deer, Brer · **What happens:** give, outrun, be · **To what, where:** story, deer, Brer Rabbit

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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 (Smith, tortoise, deer, Brer), 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:pg2306:1:39
# text = Mr. Smith also gives the story of how the tortoise outran the deer, which is identical as to incident with Uncle Remus's story of how Brer Tarrypin outran Brer Rabbit.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	outran	outrun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	outran	outrun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Smith  Mr. | the story |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **outrun** | past | the tortoise | the deer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the deer |  |  |  |  | as incident with Uncle Remus's story; identical *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **outrun** | past | Brer | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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