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title: UNCLE REMUS made his appearance recently with his right arm in a sli… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: UNCLE REMUS made his appearance recently with his right arm in a sling and his head bandaged to that extent that it looked like the stick made to accompany the Centennial bass-drum. Who acts: UNCLE, appearance, stick. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 1

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UNCLE REMUS made his appearance recently with his right arm in a sling and his head bandaged to that extent that it looked like the stick made to accompany the Centennial bass-drum.

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**Who acts:** UNCLE, appearance, stick · **What happens:** make, bandage, look, accompany · **To what, where:** appearance, sling, extent, stick, Centennial bass drum

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE, appearance, stick), 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:pg2306:67:1
# text = UNCLE REMUS made his appearance recently with his right arm in a sling and his head bandaged to that extent that it looked like the stick made to accompany the Centennial bass-drum.
1	UNCLE	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	bandaged	bandage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	Centennial	Centennial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | UNCLE | UNCLE's appearance |  |  |  | with UNCLE's right arm in a sling and UNCLE's head; recently *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
| 2 | **bandage** | participle |  | a sling and UNCLE's head *not said here* |  |  |  | to that extent | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | appearance | that extent *not said here* |  |  |  | like the stick | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme extent=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | the stick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | the stick *not said here* | the Centennial bass drum |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=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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