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title: "But, Uncle Remus, Brother Possum didn't steal the butter after all,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "But, Uncle Remus, Brother Possum didn't steal the butter after all," said the little boy, who was not at all satisfied with such summary injustice. Who acts: Uncle Remus, little boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butt
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 61

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"But, Uncle Remus, Brother Possum didn't steal the butter after all," said the little boy, who was not at all satisfied with such summary injustice.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, little boy · **What happens:** not steal, say, not be · **To what, where:** butter, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, little boy), 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:pg2306:20:61
# text = "But, Uncle Remus, Brother Possum didn't steal the butter after all," said the little boy, who was not at all satisfied with such summary injustice.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
28	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	summary	summary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **steal** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Uncle Remus and Brother | the butter |  |  | after all |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location butter=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the little boy |  |  | all |  | with such summary injustice; satisfied *property* | 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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