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title: Uncle Remus evidently thought that the little boy wouldn't like to h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Remus evidently thought that the little boy wouldn't like to hear of any further discomfiture of Brer Rabbit, who had come to be a sort of hero, and he was not mistaken. Who acts: Uncle, little boy, further discomfiture, boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chand
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 4

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Uncle Remus evidently thought that the little boy wouldn't like to hear of any further discomfiture of Brer Rabbit, who had come to be a sort of hero, and he was not mistaken.

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**Who acts:** Uncle, little boy, further discomfiture, boy · **What happens:** think, not like, hear, come, be, not be · **To what, where:** further discomfiture, sort, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, little boy, further discomfiture, 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:pg2306:24:4
# text = Uncle Remus evidently thought that the little boy wouldn't like to hear of any further discomfiture of Brer Rabbit, who had come to be a sort of hero, and he was not mistaken.
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	discomfiture	discomfiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  | evidently *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **like** | would | the little boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the little boy *not said here* | any further discomfiture of Brer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer discomfiture=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | any further discomfiture of Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | any further discomfiture of Brer *not said here* | a sort |  |  |  | of hero | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | mistaken *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **discomfit** |  |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | nom discomfiture «feeling transitive»: of=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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