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title: The presence of this humble but useful vessel in Uncle Remus's bag w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The presence of this humble but useful vessel in Uncle Remus's bag was made the occasion for several suggestive jokes at his expense by the members of the staff, but the old man's good humor was proof against all insinuations. Who acts: good humor, old man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 3

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The presence of this humble but useful vessel in Uncle Remus's bag was made the occasion for several suggestive jokes at his expense by the members of the staff, but the old man's good humor was proof against all insinuations.

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**Who acts:** good humor, old man · **What happens:** make, be, humor · **To what, where:** presence

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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 (good humor, old man), 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:pg2306:60:3
# text = The presence of this humble but useful vessel in Uncle Remus's bag was made the occasion for several suggestive jokes at his expense by the members of the staff, but the old man's good humor was proof against all insinuations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
5	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	suggestive	suggestive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
41	against	against	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	insinuations	insinuation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the presence of this humble vessel in Uncle Remus's bag |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary occasion=Product for joke=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | the old man's good humor |  |  |  |  | against all insinuations; proof *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **humor** |  | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=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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