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description: After the usual "time of day" had been passed between the two, the former inquired about an acquaintance. 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 2

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After the usual "time of day" had been passed between the two, the former inquired about an acquaintance.

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**What happens:** pass, inquire · **To what, where:** two

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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: 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:pg2306:47:2
# text = After the usual "time of day" had been passed between the two, the former inquired about an acquaintance.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the two | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: between two=Location |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | about a acquaintance | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about acquaintance=Topic |

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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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