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title: Isn't it just as honest and just as regular to sell pies as it is to… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Isn't it just as honest and just as regular to sell pies as it is to do any other kind of work?" Who acts: flingin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 6

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Isn't it just as honest and just as regular to sell pies as it is to do any other kind of work?"

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**Who acts:** flingin · **What happens:** not be, be, sell · **To what, where:** pies

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flingin), 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:pg2306:51:6
# text = Isn't it just as honest and just as regular to sell pies as it is to do any other kind of work?"
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | flingin |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | flingin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | flingin *not said here* | pies |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | flingin |  |  |  |  | do *property* | 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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