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title: One evening recently, the lady whom Uncle Remus calls "Miss Sally" m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening recently, the lady whom Uncle Remus calls "Miss Sally" missed her little seven-year-old. Who acts: Uncle Remus, lady. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 1

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One evening recently, the lady whom Uncle Remus calls "Miss Sally" missed her little seven-year-old.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, lady · **What happens:** call, miss · **To what, where:** lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. 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, lady), 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:pg2306:4:1
# text = One evening recently, the lady whom Uncle Remus calls "Miss Sally" missed her little seven-year-old.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Uncle Remus | the lady |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme sally=Result |
| 2 | **miss** | past | the lady |  |  |  | evening |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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