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title: "Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James's bank recently, talking to a crowd of barbers. " Who acts: Yer, dressed negro. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, with its depend
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 1

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"Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James's bank recently, talking to a crowd of barbers. "

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**Who acts:** Yer, dressed negro · **What happens:** uncle, say, dress, stand, talk · **To what, where:** Remus, sidewalk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yer, dressed negro), 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:pg2306:64:1
# text = "Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James's bank recently, talking to a crowd of barbers. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	Uncle	uncle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	barbers	barber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncle** *in a quote* |  | Yer | Remus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a dressed negro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | a dressed negro |  |  | the sidewalk near James's bank |  | recently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sidewalk=Location |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | a dressed negro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a crowd of barbers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to crowd=Co-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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