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title: THE deacon of a colored church met Uncle Remus recently, and, after… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: THE deacon of a colored church met Uncle Remus recently, and, after some uninteresting remarks about the weather, asked: Who acts: deacon. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 1

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THE deacon of a colored church met Uncle Remus recently, and, after some uninteresting remarks about the weather, asked:

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**Who acts:** deacon · **What happens:** meet, ask · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deacon), 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:pg2306:48:1
# text = THE deacon of a colored church met Uncle Remus recently, and, after some uninteresting remarks about the weather, asked:
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deacon	deacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	colored	colored	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	uninteresting	uninteresting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	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 | **meet** | past | the deacon of a colored church | Uncle Remus |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the deacon of a colored church *not said here* |  |  |  | after some uninteresting remarks about the weather |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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