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title: The little boy sat perfectly quiet, betraying no impatience when Unc… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The little boy sat perfectly quiet, betraying no impatience when Uncle Remus paused to hunt, first in one pocket and then in another, for enough crumbs of tobacco to replenish his pipe. Who acts: little boy, Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 3

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The little boy sat perfectly quiet, betraying no impatience when Uncle Remus paused to hunt, first in one pocket and then in another, for enough crumbs of tobacco to replenish his pipe.

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**Who acts:** little boy, Uncle · **What happens:** sit, betray, pause, hunt, replenish · **To what, where:** impatience, one pocket, pipe

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Uncle), 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:pg2306:29:3
# text = The little boy sat perfectly quiet, betraying no impatience when Uncle Remus paused to hunt, first in one pocket and then in another, for enough crumbs of tobacco to replenish his pipe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	betraying	betray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	replenish	replenish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the little boy |  |  |  |  | perfectly, quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **betray** | gerund | Uncle *not said here* | no impatience |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pause** | past | Uncle |  |  |  |  | for enough crumbs of tobacco | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Uncle *not said here* |  |  | one pocket |  | first *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |
| 5 | **replenish** | to-infinitive | Uncle *not said here* | Uncle's pipe |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pipe=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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