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title: UNCLE REMUS was in good humor one evening recently when he dropped c… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: UNCLE REMUS was in good humor one evening recently when he dropped casually into the editorial room of "The Constitution," as has been his custom for the past year or two. Who acts: UNCLE, he. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, wi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 1

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UNCLE REMUS was in good humor one evening recently when he dropped casually into the editorial room of "The Constitution," as has been his custom for the past year or two.

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**Who acts:** UNCLE, he · **What happens:** be, drop · **To what, where:** good humor, editorial room

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE, he), 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:pg2306:60:1
# text = UNCLE REMUS was in good humor one evening recently when he dropped casually into the editorial room of "The Constitution," as has been his custom for the past year or two.
1	UNCLE	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	casually	casually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	editorial	editorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | UNCLE |  |  | good humor | evening |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | past | he |  |  | the editorial room of the Constitution |  | casually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | year | as his custom | 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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