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title: A CHARLESTON negro who was in Atlanta on the Fourth of July made a m… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: A CHARLESTON negro who was in Atlanta on the Fourth of July made a mistake. Who acts: CHARLESTON negro. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 1

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A CHARLESTON negro who was in Atlanta on the Fourth of July made a mistake.

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**Who acts:** CHARLESTON negro · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** Atlanta, mistake

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CHARLESTON negro), 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:pg2306:55:1
# text = A CHARLESTON negro who was in Atlanta on the Fourth of July made a mistake.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	CHARLESTON	CHARLESTON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a CHARLESTON negro |  |  | Atlanta |  | on the Fourth of July | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | a CHARLESTON negro | a mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |

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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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