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title: _--Most readers of these Notes will remember the central episode of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Most readers of these Notes will remember the central episode of Mr. J. C. Harris' _Uncle Remus_, in which Brer Fox, annoyed at Brer Rabbit's depredations, fits up "a contrapshun, what he calls a Tar Baby." Who acts: Most readers, Brer. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. th
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 6

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\_--Most readers of these Notes will remember the central episode of Mr. J. C. Harris' \_Uncle Remus\_, in which Brer Fox, annoyed at Brer Rabbit's depredations, fits up "a contrapshun, what he calls a Tar Baby."

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**Who acts:** Most readers, Brer · **What happens:** remember, fit up, call · **To what, where:** central episode, contrapshun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most readers, Brer), 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:pg7128:56:6
# text = _--Most readers of these Notes will remember the central episode of Mr. J. C. Harris' _Uncle Remus_, in which Brer Fox, annoyed at Brer Rabbit's depredations, fits up "a contrapshun, what he calls a Tar Baby."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	Notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
15	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	C.	C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	Harris	Harris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
26	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
27	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	list	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	depredations	depredation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
36	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	contrapshun	contrapshun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	44	obj	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | future | Most readers of this Notes | the central episode of J. C.  Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit up** | present | Brer | a contrapshun |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | present | Brer | a contrapshun |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme baby=Result |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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