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description: These relations were pretty soon established, to the mutual satisfaction of the parties most interested, and the old man continued his remarks, but this time not at random: Who acts: old man, man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 16

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These relations were pretty soon established, to the mutual satisfaction of the parties most interested, and the old man continued his remarks, but this time not at random:

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**Who acts:** old man, man · **What happens:** establish, continue, satisfy, remark · **To what, where:** relations, random, remarks, parties

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man), 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:pg2306:31:16
# text = These relations were pretty soon established, to the mutual satisfaction of the parties most interested, and the old man continued his remarks, but this time not at random:
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	random	random	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | this relations |  | random |  | to the mutual satisfaction of the parties; soon *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the old man | man's remarks |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remark=Theme |
| 3 | **satisfy** |  |  | the parties |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **remark** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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