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title: WHEN Uncle Remus put in an appearance one morning recently, his frie… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: WHEN Uncle Remus put in an appearance one morning recently, his friends knew he had been in trouble. Who acts: Uncle, friends. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 1

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WHEN Uncle Remus put in an appearance one morning recently, his friends knew he had been in trouble.

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**Who acts:** Uncle, friends · **What happens:** put, know, be · **To what, where:** appearance, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, friends), 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:pg2306:52:1
# text = WHEN Uncle Remus put in an appearance one morning recently, his friends knew he had been in trouble.
1	WHEN	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Uncle |  |  | a appearance | morning | recently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in appearance=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | past | Uncle's friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Uncle |  |  | trouble |  |  | 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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