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title: "In dis w'ich?" inquired Uncle with a sudden affectation of interest. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "In dis w'ich?" inquired Uncle with a sudden affectation of interest. Who acts: dis w'ich. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 13

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"In dis w'ich?" inquired Uncle with a sudden affectation of interest.

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**Who acts:** dis w'ich · **What happens:** inquire · **To what, where:** Uncle

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dis w'ich), 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:pg2306:49:13
# text = "In dis w'ich?" inquired Uncle with a sudden affectation of interest.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	affectation	affectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | dis w'ich |  | Uncle |  |  | with a sudden affectation of interest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent uncle=Recipient |

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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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