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title: The old man evidently expected an attack all around, for he was unus… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man evidently expected an attack all around, for he was unusually quiet, and fumbled in his pockets in an embarrassed manner. Who acts: old man, man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 2

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The old man evidently expected an attack all around, for he was unusually quiet, and fumbled in his pockets in an embarrassed manner.

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**Who acts:** old man, man · **What happens:** expect, be, fumble · **To what, where:** attack, pockets

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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 (old man, man), 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:pg2306:67:2
# text = The old man evidently expected an attack all around, for he was unusually quiet, and fumbled in his pockets in an embarrassed manner.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fumbled	fumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past | the old man | a attack |  |  |  | around, evidently *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | quiet, unusually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fumble** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  | man's pockets |  | in a embarrassed manner | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |

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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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