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title: "But bless grashus, honey! w'ilst all dis gwine on, Brer Fox wuz sta… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "But bless grashus, honey! w'ilst all dis gwine on, Brer Fox wuz stannin' at de back do' wid one year at de cat-hole lissenin'. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 25

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"But bless grashus, honey! w'ilst all dis gwine on, Brer Fox wuz stannin' at de back do' wid one year at de cat-hole lissenin'.

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**What happens:** bless on, wid · **To what, where:** grashus, de, de hole lissenin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:13:25
# text = "But bless grashus, honey! w'ilst all dis gwine on, Brer Fox wuz stannin' at de back do' wid one year at de cat-hole lissenin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
4	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	w'ilst	w'ilst	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stannin	stannin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	wid	wid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	lissenin	lissenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | grashus and honey |  | de |  | w'ilst all dis gwine | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme |
| 2 | **wid** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  |  |  | de hole lissenin | year |  | 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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