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title: "I loant 'im two dollars," responded Uncle Remus, grimly, "an' I'm a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I loant 'im two dollars," responded Uncle Remus, grimly, "an' I'm a waitin' on 'im fer de money. Who acts: Uncle Remus. 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 clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 37

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"I loant 'im two dollars," responded Uncle Remus, grimly, "an' I'm a waitin' on 'im fer de money.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus · **What happens:** loant, respond, be · **To what, where:** im two dollars, waitin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:49:37
# text = "I loant 'im two dollars," responded Uncle Remus, grimly, "an' I'm a waitin' on 'im fer de money.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loant	loant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	grimly	grimly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	waitin	waitin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loant** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | im two dollars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | grimly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | a waitin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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