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title: Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes. Who acts: Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 38

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Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.

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**Who acts:** Uncle · **What happens:** pause, draw · **To what, where:** pound yam, ashes

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle), 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:pg2306:5:38
# text = Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	yam	yam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Uncle |  |  | here |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Uncle *not said here* | a pound yam |  | the ashes |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent yam=Theme out ash=Initial\_Location |

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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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