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title: "Well, I'm mighty glad er dat," remarked Uncle Remus, with unction. " — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, I'm mighty glad er dat," remarked Uncle Remus, with unction. " Who acts: Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 3

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"Well, I'm mighty glad er dat," remarked Uncle Remus, with unction. "

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus · **What happens:** be, remark · **To what, where:** mighty glad er dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. 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), 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:pg2306:62:3
# text = "Well, I'm mighty glad er dat," remarked Uncle Remus, with unction. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	unction	unction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | mighty glad er dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | Uncle Remus | mighty glad er dat *not said here* |  |  |  | with unction | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |

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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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