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title: "ONE time," said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "ONE time," said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself back in his seat with an air of melancholy resignation-- "one time Brer Rabbit wuz gwine 'long down de road shakin' his big bushy tail, en feelin' des ez scrumpshus ez a bee-martin wid a fresh bug." Who acts: Uncle Remus, big bushy t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 1

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"ONE time," said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself back in his seat with an air of melancholy resignation-- "one time Brer Rabbit wuz gwine 'long down de road shakin' his big bushy tail, en feelin' des ez scrumpshus ez a bee-martin wid a fresh bug."

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, big bushy tail · **What happens:** say, sigh, settle back, bug · **To what, where:** Remus, seat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. 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, big bushy tail), 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:pg2306:28:1
# text = "ONE time," said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself back in his seat with an air of melancholy resignation-- "one time Brer Rabbit wuz gwine 'long down de road shakin' his big bushy tail, en feelin' des ez scrumpshus ez a bee-martin wid a fresh bug."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ONE	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
11	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	shakin	shakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	feelin	feelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	conj	_	_
49	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	59	nsubj	_	_
50	scrumpshus	scrumpshus	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	flat:foreign	_	_
51	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	flat:foreign	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
53	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	martin	martin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	59	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sigh** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **settle back** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* | Remus |  | Remus's seat with a air of melancholy resignation |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in seat=Location |
| 4 | **bug** *in a quote* |  | Remus's big bushy tail |  |  |  | time | de road shakin | tree rules |

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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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