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title: Those who can recall to mind the peculiar gurgling, jerking, liquid… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who can recall to mind the peculiar gurgling, jerking, liquid sound made by pouring water from a large jug, or the sound produced by throwing several stones in rapid succession into a pond of deep water, may be able to form a very faint idea of the sound, but it can not be reproduced in print.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 4

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Those who can recall to mind the peculiar gurgling, jerking, liquid sound made by pouring water from a large jug, or the sound produced by throwing several stones in rapid succession into a pond of deep water, may be able to form a very faint idea of the sound, but it can not be reproduced in print.

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**Who acts:** Those · **What happens:** recall, mind, jerk, make, pour, produce · **To what, where:** peculiar gurgling, liquid sound, water, large jug, sound, several stones

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those), 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:pg2306:17:4
# text = Those who can recall to mind the peculiar gurgling, jerking, liquid sound made by pouring water from a large jug, or the sound produced by throwing several stones in rapid succession into a pond of deep water, may be able to form a very faint idea of the sound, but it can not be reproduced in print.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	recall	recall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gurgling	gurgling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	jerking	jerk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
27	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
44	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	aux:pass	_	_
60	reproduced	reproduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | can | Those |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mind** | to-infinitive | Those *not said here* | the peculiar gurgling |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gurgling=Theme |
| 3 | **jerk** | gerund | Those *not said here* | liquid sound or the sound |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | liquid sound or the sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **pour** | gerund |  | water |  | a large jug |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from jug=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **produce** | participle |  | the sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **throw** | gerund |  | several stones |  | rapid succession |  | into a pond of deep water *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into pond=Result |
| 8 | **is** | may | Those *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **form** | to-infinitive | Those *not said here* | a faint idea of the sound |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **reproduce** | can · passive |  | idea |  | print |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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