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title: A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up wit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up with Uncle Remus. Who acts: Jonesboro negro. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 1

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A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up with Uncle Remus.

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**Who acts:** Jonesboro negro · **What happens:** wait, go out, meet up

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jonesboro negro), 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:pg2306:47:1
# text = A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up with Uncle Remus.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | a Jonesboro negro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the train | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | a Jonesboro negro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet up** | past | a Jonesboro negro |  |  |  |  | with Uncle Remus | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with remus=Co-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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