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title: "Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug- juic… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug- juice in town--regular sorghum skimmings." Who acts: agricultural editor, sence. 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 eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 34

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"Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug- juice in town--regular sorghum skimmings."

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**Who acts:** agricultural editor, sence · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** meanest bug juice, town · **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 (agricultural editor, sence), 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:pg2306:60:34
# text = "Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug- juice in town--regular sorghum skimmings."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	meanest	mean	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	sorghum	sorghum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	skimmings	skimming	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	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 | the agricultural editor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sence | the meanest bug juice and regular sorghum skimmings |  | town |  |  | 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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