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title: WHEN Uncle Remus went down to the passenger depot one morning recent… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: WHEN Uncle Remus went down to the passenger depot one morning recently, the first sight that caught his eye was an old negro man, a woman, and two children sitting in the shade near the door of the baggage-room. Who acts: Remus, first sight, two children. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and Hi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 1

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WHEN Uncle Remus went down to the passenger depot one morning recently, the first sight that caught his eye was an old negro man, a woman, and two children sitting in the shade near the door of the baggage-room.

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**Who acts:** Remus, first sight, two children · **What happens:** uncle, go down, catch, be, sit · **To what, where:** eye, old negro man, shade

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remus, first sight, two children), 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:pg2306:57:1
# text = WHEN Uncle Remus went down to the passenger depot one morning recently, the first sight that caught his eye was an old negro man, a woman, and two children sitting in the shade near the door of the baggage-room.
1	WHEN	when	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	Uncle	uncle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	depot	depot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	near	near	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	baggage	baggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncle** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | past | Remus |  |  |  | morning | to the passenger depot; down, recently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the first sight | Remus's eye |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the first sight | a old negro man |  |  |  | a woman *vocative* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | two children |  |  | the shade |  | near the door of the baggage room | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=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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