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title: "W'en he git to de nine-mile pos' he tought he git dere fus, 'cause… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'en he git to de nine-mile pos' he tought he git dere fus, 'cause he mek two jump; so he holler: 'B'er Cooter!' Who acts: deer, W'en git, mek. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 91

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"W'en he git to de nine-mile pos' he tought he git dere fus, 'cause he mek two jump; so he holler: 'B'er Cooter!'

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**Who acts:** deer, W'en git, mek · **What happens:** git, de, tought, fus, jump, holler · **To what, where:** mile pos

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, W'en git, mek), 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:pg2306:1:91
# text = "W'en he git to de nine-mile pos' he tought he git dere fus, 'cause he mek two jump; so he holler: 'B'er Cooter!'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pos	pos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tought	tought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fus	fus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	B'er	B'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** *in a quote* |  | deer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **de** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | W'en git *not said here* | mile pos |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tought** *in a quote* | past | W'en git |  |  |  |  | cause mek | tree rules |
| 4 | **fus** *in a quote* |  | deer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump** *in a quote* | present | mek *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **holler** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | deer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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