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title: The result of this was that Uncle Remus had to take the little boy b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The result of this was that Uncle Remus had to take the little boy by the hand and go with him to the "big house," which the old man was not loath to do; and, when the child went to bed, he lay awake a long time expecting an unseemly visitation from some mysterious source. Who acts: result, old man,
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 60

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The result of this was that Uncle Remus had to take the little boy by the hand and go with him to the "big house," which the old man was not loath to do; and, when the child went to bed, he lay awake a long time expecting an unseemly visitation from some mysterious source.

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**Who acts:** result, old man, child, en · **What happens:** be, take, go, not be, do, lie · **To what, where:** little boy, big house, bed, unseemly visitation, mysterious source, this

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (result, old man, child, en), 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:pg2306:34:60
# text = The result of this was that Uncle Remus had to take the little boy by the hand and go with him to the "big house," which the old man was not loath to do; and, when the child went to bed, he lay awake a long time expecting an unseemly visitation from some mysterious source.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	loath	loath	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
50	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
55	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	unseemly	unseemly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	visitation	visitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
60	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the result of this |  |  |  |  | have *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the result of this *not said here* |  | the little boy |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | the result of this *not said here* |  |  | the big house |  | with en | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  | loath *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | past | the child |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **lie** | past | en |  |  |  | time | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **expect** | gerund | en *not said here* | a unseemly visitation |  | some mysterious source |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitation=Theme |
| 9 | **result** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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