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title: "Well, it don't deceive any of us up here," remarked the agricultura… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, it don't deceive any of us up here," remarked the agricultural editor, dryly. " Who acts: jug, agricultural editor. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 14

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"Well, it don't deceive any of us up here," remarked the agricultural editor, dryly. "

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**Who acts:** jug, agricultural editor · **What happens:** not deceive, remark · **To what, where:** any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jug, agricultural editor), 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:pg2306:60:14
# text = "Well, it don't deceive any of us up here," remarked the agricultural editor, dryly. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	dryly	dryly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deceive** *in a quote* | do-support | jug | any |  | here |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the agricultural editor |  |  |  |  | dryly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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