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title: Tooby sho, honey; dat changes marters. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Tooby sho, honey; dat changes marters. Who acts: dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 4

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Tooby sho, honey; dat changes marters.

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**Who acts:** dat · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** marters

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat), 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:pg2306:14:4
# text = Tooby sho, honey; dat changes marters.
1	Tooby	Tooby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	marters	marter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | dat | marters |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marter=Patient |

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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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