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title: Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a red snapper all waxed and knotted. Who acts: man, red snapper. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 15

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Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a red snapper all waxed and knotted.

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**Who acts:** man, red snapper · **What happens:** find, draw, plait, wax, knot · **To what, where:** plaited whip thong

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, red snapper), 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:pg2306:23:15
# text = Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a red snapper all waxed and knotted.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	plaited	plait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
11	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	thong	thong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	snapper	snapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	knotted	knot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | man |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | past | man *not said here* | a plaited whip thong |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plait** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | nicely *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wax** | past | a red snapper | a plaited whip thong *not said here* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thong=Theme |
| 5 | **knot** | past | a red snapper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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