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title: All over the floor long strips of "wahoo" bark were spread, and thes… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: All over the floor long strips of "wahoo" bark were spread, and these the old man was weaving into horse-collars. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 2

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All over the floor long strips of "wahoo" bark were spread, and these the old man was weaving into horse-collars.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** spread, weave · **To what, where:** long strips, horse collars

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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:pg2306:22:2
# text = All over the floor long strips of "wahoo" bark were spread, and these the old man was weaving into horse-collars.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	collars	collar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · passive |  | long strips of wahoo bark |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | past · progressive | this old man |  |  | horse collars |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into collar=Destination |

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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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