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title: UPON his next visit to Uncle Remus, the little boy was exceedingly a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: UPON his next visit to Uncle Remus, the little boy was exceedingly anxious to know more about witches, but the old man prudently refrained from exciting the youngster's imagination any further in that direction. Who acts: little boy, old man, his, youngster. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 1

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UPON his next visit to Uncle Remus, the little boy was exceedingly anxious to know more about witches, but the old man prudently refrained from exciting the youngster's imagination any further in that direction.

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**Who acts:** little boy, old man, his, youngster · **What happens:** be, know, refrain, visit, imagine · **To what, where:** more, exciting imagination

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1. 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, old man, his, youngster), 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:pg2306:35:1
# text = UPON his next visit to Uncle Remus, the little boy was exceedingly anxious to know more about witches, but the old man prudently refrained from exciting the youngster's imagination any further in that direction.
1	UPON	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	prudently	prudently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	refrained	refrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	any	any	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the little boy |  |  |  |  | upon his next visit to Uncle; anxious, exceedingly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 3 | **refrain** | past | the old man |  |  | the youngster's exciting imagination |  | far, prudently *property* | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent from imagination=Eventuality |
| 4 | **visit** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  | to Uncle | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 5 | **imagine** |  | the youngster |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition 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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