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title: The next moment Uncle Remus was elbowing his way unceremoniously thr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The next moment Uncle Remus was elbowing his way unceremoniously through the crowd, and in a very short time, seated in the carriage driven by the old man, Miss Huntingdon was whirling through the streets of Atlanta in the direction of her brother's home. Who acts: next moment, Miss Huntingdon. A se
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 20

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The next moment Uncle Remus was elbowing his way unceremoniously through the crowd, and in a very short time, seated in the carriage driven by the old man, Miss Huntingdon was whirling through the streets of Atlanta in the direction of her brother's home.

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**Who acts:** next moment, Miss Huntingdon · **What happens:** elbow, seat, drive, whirl · **To what, where:** way, crowd, short time, carriage, streets

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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 (next moment, Miss Huntingdon), 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:pg2306:46:20
# text = The next moment Uncle Remus was elbowing his way unceremoniously through the crowd, and in a very short time, seated in the carriage driven by the old man, Miss Huntingdon was whirling through the streets of Atlanta in the direction of her brother's home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	elbowing	elbow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	unceremoniously	unceremoniously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **elbow** | past · progressive | the next moment | Remus's way |  | the crowd | time | unceremoniously *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Patient through crowd=Location |
| 2 | **seat** | participle |  | a short time *not said here* |  | the carriage |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location |
| 3 | **drive** | participle |  | the carriage *not said here* |  |  |  | by the old man | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whirl** | past · progressive | Miss Huntingdon |  |  | the streets of Atlanta |  | in the direction of Huntingdon's brother's home | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through street=Source in direction=Trajectory |

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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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