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title: This body- servant was a very fine specimen of the average coast neg… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: This body- servant was a very fine specimen of the average coast negro-- sleek, well-conditioned, and consequential--disposed to regard with undisguised contempt everything and everybody not indigenous to the rice-growing region--and he paraded around the streets with quite a curious and critical ai
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 4

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This body- servant was a very fine specimen of the average coast negro-- sleek, well-conditioned, and consequential--disposed to regard with undisguised contempt everything and everybody not indigenous to the rice-growing region--and he paraded around the streets with quite a curious and critical air.

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**Who acts:** body servant, gentleman · **What happens:** be, condition, dispose, regard, undisguis, grow · **To what, where:** fine specimen, streets

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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 (body servant, gentleman), 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:pg2306:49:4
# text = This body- servant was a very fine specimen of the average coast negro-- sleek, well-conditioned, and consequential--disposed to regard with undisguised contempt everything and everybody not indigenous to the rice-growing region--and he paraded around the streets with quite a curious and critical air.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	conditioned	condition	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	consequential	consequential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	undisguised	undisguis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	conj	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	paraded	parade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
46	around	around	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
50	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	55	det:predet	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
52	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	critical	critical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
55	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this body servant | a fine specimen |  |  |  | of the average coast negro | tree rules |
| 2 | **condition** | participle | this body servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dispose** | participle | this body servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **regard** | to-infinitive | this body servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with everything | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **undisguis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **parade** | past | gentleman |  |  | the streets |  | with quite curious air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around street=Trajectory |

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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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