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title: "MISS SALLY'S" little boy again occupying the anxious position of au… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "MISS SALLY'S" little boy again occupying the anxious position of auditor, Uncle Remus took the shovel and "put de noses er de chunks tergedder," as he expressed it, and then began: Who acts: little boy, Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Te
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 1

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"MISS SALLY'S" little boy again occupying the anxious position of auditor, Uncle Remus took the shovel and "put de noses er de chunks tergedder," as he expressed it, and then began:

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**Who acts:** little boy, Uncle · **What happens:** occupy, take, put, express, begin · **To what, where:** anxious position, shovel, de noses, tergedder

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Uncle), 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:pg2306:13:1
# text = "MISS SALLY'S" little boy again occupying the anxious position of auditor, Uncle Remus took the shovel and "put de noses er de chunks tergedder," as he expressed it, and then began:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	MISS	MISS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	SALLY	SALLY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'S	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	occupying	occupy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	auditor	auditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	compound	_	_
29	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | gerund | MISS SALLY's little boy | the anxious position of auditor |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus position=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | past | Uncle | the shovel |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | Uncle *not said here* | de noses |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent nose=Asset tergedder=Goal |
| 4 | **express** | past | Uncle | tergedder |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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