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title: "No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very large and very red bandana. " Who acts: Uncle Remus, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 13

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"No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very large and very red bandana. "

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus, dat · **What happens:** answer, mop, feature · **To what, where:** benign features

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. 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, dat), 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:pg2306:65:13
# text = "No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very large and very red bandana. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mopping	mop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	benign	benign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
20	bandana	bandana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mop** | gerund | Uncle Remus *not said here* | dat's benign features |  |  |  | with a large bandana | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent feature=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **feature** |  | dat |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition 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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