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title: "But, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, dolefully, "that was cheati… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "But, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, dolefully, "that was cheating." Who acts: Uncle Remus, that. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 50

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"But, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, dolefully, "that was cheating."

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, that · **What happens:** say, cheat · **To what, where:** little boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. 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, that), 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:pg2306:21:50
# text = "But, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, dolefully, "that was cheating."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dolefully	dolefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus | the little boy |  |  |  | dolefully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 2 | **cheat** *in a quote* | past · progressive | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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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