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title: "Now, den," said Uncle Remus, with unusual gravity, as soon as the l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now, den," said Uncle Remus, with unusual gravity, as soon as the little boy, by taking his seat, announced that he was ready for the evening's entertainment to begin; "now, den, dish yer tale w'at I'm agwine ter gin you is de las' row er stumps, sho. Who acts: den, yer tale w'at, you, evening. A s
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 1

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"Now, den," said Uncle Remus, with unusual gravity, as soon as the little boy, by taking his seat, announced that he was ready for the evening's entertainment to begin; "now, den, dish yer tale w'at I'm agwine ter gin you is de las' row er stumps, sho.

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**Who acts:** den, yer tale w'at, you, evening · **What happens:** say, take, announce, be, begin, w'at · **To what, where:** seat, agwine ter gin, row · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, yer tale w'at, you, evening), 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:pg2306:37:1
# text = "Now, den," said Uncle Remus, with unusual gravity, as soon as the little boy, by taking his seat, announced that he was ready for the evening's entertainment to begin; "now, den, dish yer tale w'at I'm agwine ter gin you is de las' row er stumps, sho.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	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	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	48	amod	_	_
47	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	agwine	agwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
56	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	59	advmod	_	_
57	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	'	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	acl:relcl	_	_
60	er	er	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | den |  |  |  | now | with unusual gravity; soon *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with gravity=Manner |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | den *not said here* | Remus's seat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |
| 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | den *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | den |  |  |  |  | for the evening's entertainment; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | to-infinitive | den *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **w'at** *in a quote* |  | den and dish |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | yer tale w'at | agwine ter gin and sho |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | las's row |  |  |  | er stumps | tree rules |
| 9 | **entertain** |  | the evening |  |  |  |  |  | nom entertainment «act 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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