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title: She kep' on," continued Uncle Remus, pointing to Mr. Huntingdon, "en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: She kep' on," continued Uncle Remus, pointing to Mr. Huntingdon, "en now dar he is." Who acts: des, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 134

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She kep' on," continued Uncle Remus, pointing to Mr. Huntingdon, "en now dar he is."

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**Who acts:** des, en · **What happens:** kep, continue, point, be · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, Huntingdon

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (des, 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:pg2306:46:134
# text = She kep' on," continued Uncle Remus, pointing to Mr. Huntingdon, "en now dar he is."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kep** | infinitive | des |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  | Huntingdon  Mr. |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to huntingdon=Recipient |
| 4 | **be** | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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