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title: In another story given by Mr. Smith, the cotia is very thirsty, and,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 52

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In another story given by Mr. Smith, the cotia is very thirsty, and, seeing a man coming with a jar on his head, lies down in the road in front of him, and repeats this until the man puts down his jar to go back after all the dead cotias he has seen.

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**Who acts:** cotia, man, seeing, Smith · **What happens:** give, be, see, come, lie down, repeat · **To what, where:** story, man, road, this, jar, dead cotias

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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 (cotia, man, seeing, Smith), 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:pg2306:1:52
# text = In another story given by Mr. Smith, the cotia is very thirsty, and, seeing a man coming with a jar on his head, lies down in the road in front of him, and repeats this until the man puts down his jar to go back after all the dead cotias he has seen.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cotia	cotia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
28	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	repeats	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
40	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	obj	_	_
41	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
45	down	down	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
50	back	back	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	after	after	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	55	det:predet	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	cotias	cotia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | another story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the cotia |  |  | another story |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | a man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a jar on Smith's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lie down** | present | seeing |  |  | the road |  | in front of Smith; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location |
| 6 | **repeat** | present | the cotia *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 7 | **put down** | present | the man | Smith's jar |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jar=Goal |
| 8 | **go back** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  | after all dead cotias |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **see** | present · perfect | Smith | all dead cotias *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cotia=Stimulus |

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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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