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title: This put an end to whatever doubts the child might have entertained. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: This put an end to whatever doubts the child might have entertained. Who acts: This, whatever. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 38

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This put an end to whatever doubts the child might have entertained.

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**Who acts:** This, whatever · **What happens:** put, doubt, entertain · **To what, where:** end, child

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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 (This, whatever), 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:pg2306:29:38
# text = This put an end to whatever doubts the child might have entertained.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	doubts	doubt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive | This | a end |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 2 | **doubt** | present | whatever | the child |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **entertain** | might · perfect |  | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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