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title: UNCLE REMUS was half-soling one of his shoes, and his Miss Sally's l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: UNCLE REMUS was half-soling one of his shoes, and his Miss Sally's little boy had been handling his awls, his hammers, and his knives to such an extent that the old man was compelled to assume a threatening attitude; but peace reigned again, and the little boy perched himself on a chair, watching Un
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 1

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UNCLE REMUS was half-soling one of his shoes, and his Miss Sally's little boy had been handling his awls, his hammers, and his knives to such an extent that the old man was compelled to assume a threatening attitude; but peace reigned again, and the little boy perched himself on a chair, watching Uncle Remus driving in pegs.

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**Who acts:** UNCLE, little boy, peace, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** be, handle, such, compel, assume, threaten · **To what, where:** awls, extent, old man, threatening attitude, boy, chair

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE, little boy, peace, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:16:1
# text = UNCLE REMUS was half-soling one of his shoes, and his Miss Sally's little boy had been handling his awls, his hammers, and his knives to such an extent that the old man was compelled to assume a threatening attitude; but peace reigned again, and the little boy perched himself on a chair, watching Uncle Remus driving in pegs.
1	UNCLE	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	soling	sole	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	handling	handle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	awls	awl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	such	such	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	amod	_	_
45	attitude	attitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	parataxis	_	_
57	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	56	obj	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
63	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	62	xcomp	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	pegs	peg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | UNCLE |  |  |  |  | boy's knives *obl*; sole *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **handle** | past · perfect · progressive | his Miss Sally's little boy | boy's awls and boy's hammers |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awl=Theme |
| 3 | **such** | to-infinitive | UNCLE *not said here* | a extent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **compel** | past · passive |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **assume** | to-infinitive |  | a threatening attitude |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attitude=Theme |
| 6 | **threaten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **reign** | participle | peace |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **perch** | past | the little boy | boy |  | a chair |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on chair=Destination |
| 9 | **watch** | gerund | the little boy *not said here* | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **drive** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* |  |  | pegs |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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