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title: There were various exclamations of assent, and the old man went on h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: There were various exclamations of assent, and the old man went on his way singing, "Don't you Grieve Atter Me." Who acts: various exclamations, old man, way, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, with its dependency tree and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 23

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There were various exclamations of assent, and the old man went on his way singing, "Don't you Grieve Atter Me."

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**Who acts:** various exclamations, old man, way, you · **What happens:** be, go, sing, not grieve, exclaim · **To what, where:** way, Atter Me, assent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (various exclamations, old man, way, you), 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:pg2306:65:23
# text = There were various exclamations of assent, and the old man went on his way singing, "Don't you Grieve Atter Me."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	assent	assent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	Atter	Atter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Me	Me	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | various exclamations of assent |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the old man |  |  | man's way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | man's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **grieve** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you | Atter Me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus me=Experiencer |
| 5 | **exclaim** |  |  | assent |  |  |  |  | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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