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title: "ONE night," said Uncle Remus--taking Miss Sally's little boy on his… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "ONE night," said Uncle Remus--taking Miss Sally's little boy on his knee, and stroking the child's hair thoughtfully and caressingly--"one night Brer Possum call by fer Brer Coon, 'cordin' ter 'greement, en atter gobblin' up a dish er fried greens en smokin' a seegyar, dey rambled fort' fer ter see
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 1

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"ONE night," said Uncle Remus--taking Miss Sally's little boy on his knee, and stroking the child's hair thoughtfully and caressingly--"one night Brer Possum call by fer Brer Coon, 'cordin' ter 'greement, en atter gobblin' up a dish er fried greens en smokin' a seegyar, dey rambled fort' fer ter see how de ballance er de settlement wuz gittin' long.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, one night, fried greens, rambled fort · **What happens:** say, take, stroke, call, fry, smokin · **To what, where:** little boy, knee, hair, er wuz gittin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, one night, fried greens, rambled fort), 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:pg2306:6:1
# text = "ONE night," said Uncle Remus--taking Miss Sally's little boy on his knee, and stroking the child's hair thoughtfully and caressingly--"one night Brer Possum call by fer Brer Coon, 'cordin' ter 'greement, en atter gobblin' up a dish er fried greens en smokin' a seegyar, dey rambled fort' fer ter see how de ballance er de settlement wuz gittin' long.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ONE	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	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	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	stroking	stroke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	caressingly	caressingly	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
39	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	cordin	cordin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
44	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	greement	greement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	gobblin	gobblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	up	up	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
56	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
58	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	smokin	smokin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	59	punct	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	seegyar	seegyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
64	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	_
65	rambled	ramble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	66	amod	_	_
66	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	70	punct	_	_
68	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	_
69	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	compound	_	_
70	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	acl:relcl	_	_
71	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	72	advmod	_	_
72	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	amod	_	_
73	ballance	ballance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	_
74	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	compound	_	_
75	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	_
76	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	_
77	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	compound	_	_
78	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	78	punct	_	_
80	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	70	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* | Miss Sally's little boy |  | Remus's knee |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on knee=Destination |
| 3 | **stroke** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* | the child's hair |  |  |  | thoughtfully *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* |  | one night |  |  |  |  | by fer; up a dish er | tree rules |
| 5 | **fry** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **smokin** *in a quote* |  | fried greens |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ramble** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | rambled fort *not said here* | er wuz gittin |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gittin=Stimulus |

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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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