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title: "IN dem times," said Uncle Remus, gazing admiringly at himself in a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "IN dem times," said Uncle Remus, gazing admiringly at himself in a fragment of looking-glass, "Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en dem yuther creeturs go co'tin' en sparklin' 'roun' de naberhood mo' samer dan folks. ' Who acts: Uncle Remus, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 1

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"IN dem times," said Uncle Remus, gazing admiringly at himself in a fragment of looking-glass, "Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en dem yuther creeturs go co'tin' en sparklin' 'roun' de naberhood mo' samer dan folks. '

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, Brer · **What happens:** say, gaze, look, go · **To what, where:** fragment, en sparklin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. 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, Brer), 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:pg2306:33:1
# text = "IN dem times," said Uncle Remus, gazing admiringly at himself in a fragment of looking-glass, "Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en dem yuther creeturs go co'tin' en sparklin' 'roun' de naberhood mo' samer dan folks. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	admiringly	admiringly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
25	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
37	yuther	yuther	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
40	co'tin	co'tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	sparklin	sparklin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	50	compound	_	_
49	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	samer	sam	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	amod	_	_
53	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## 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 |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* |  |  | a fragment of looking glass |  | at Remus; admiringly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at himself=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Brer and en and en dem | co'tin's en sparklin |  |  |  | yuther *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sparklin=Theme |

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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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