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title: As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little co… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little colored boy carrying a slate and a number of books. Who acts: Uncle Remus, Remus, little colored boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education, with its dependency tree and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 1

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As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little colored boy carrying a slate and a number of books.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, Remus, little colored boy · **What happens:** come up, meet, carry · **To what, where:** Whitehall Street, little colored boy, slate

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. 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, Remus, little colored boy), 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:pg2306:63:1
# text = As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little colored boy carrying a slate and a number of books.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Whitehall	Whitehall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | Uncle Remus | Whitehall Street |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Remus | a little colored boy |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a little colored boy *not said here* | a slate and a number of books |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slate=Theme |

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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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