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title: "Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignity. " Who acts: Daddy. 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 7

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"Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignity. "

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**Who acts:** Daddy · **What happens:** ask, straighten up · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, Remus

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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 (Daddy), 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:pg2306:55:7
# text = "Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignity. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	straightening	straighten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Daddy |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remus=Recipient |
| 2 | **straighten up** | gerund | Daddy *not said here* | Remus |  |  |  | with dignity | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with dignity=Instrument |

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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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