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title: Uncle Remus accompanied the speech of the bird with a peculiar whist… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Remus accompanied the speech of the bird with a peculiar whistling sound in his throat, that was a marvelous imitation of a sparrow's chirp, and the little boy clapped his hands with delight, and insisted on a repetition. Who acts: Uncle, peculiar, that, little boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus,
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 37

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Uncle Remus accompanied the speech of the bird with a peculiar whistling sound in his throat, that was a marvelous imitation of a sparrow's chirp, and the little boy clapped his hands with delight, and insisted on a repetition.

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**Who acts:** Uncle, peculiar, that, little boy, sparrow · **What happens:** accompany, whistle, be, clap, insist, speak · **To what, where:** speech, sound, throat, marvelous imitation, hands, repetition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Uncle, peculiar, that, 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:pg2306:22:37
# text = Uncle Remus accompanied the speech of the bird with a peculiar whistling sound in his throat, that was a marvelous imitation of a sparrow's chirp, and the little boy clapped his hands with delight, and insisted on a repetition.
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	chirp	chirp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past | Uncle | the speech of the bird |  |  |  | with a peculiar and a marvelous imitation | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme |
| 2 | **whistle** | gerund | a peculiar and a marvelous imitation *not said here* | sound |  | Uncle's throat |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | a marvelous imitation |  |  |  | of a sparrow's chirp | tree rules |
| 4 | **clap** | past | the little boy | Uncle's hands |  |  |  | with delight | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 5 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle | the little boy *not said here* |  |  | a repetition |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **speak** |  |  | the bird |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **chirp** |  | a sparrow |  |  |  |  |  | nom chirp «event intransitive»: poss=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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