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title: W'y, der's er old gray rat w'at uses 'bout yer, en time atter time h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'y, der's er old gray rat w'at uses 'bout yer, en time atter time he comes out w'en you all done gone ter bed en sets up dar in de cornder en dozes, en me en him talks by de 'our; en w'at dat old rat dunno ain't down in de spellin' book. Who acts: W'y der, w'at, w'en, me. A sentence of «Uncle Remus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 12

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W'y, der's er old gray rat w'at uses 'bout yer, en time atter time he comes out w'en you all done gone ter bed en sets up dar in de cornder en dozes, en me en him talks by de 'our; en w'at dat old rat dunno ain't down in de spellin' book.

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**Who acts:** W'y der, w'at, w'en, me, en, w'at dat · **What happens:** use, come out, do, set up, en, talk · **To what, where:** bout, atter time, dar, w'at, en dozes

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'y der, w'at, w'en, me), 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:pg2306:17:12
# text = W'y, der's er old gray rat w'at uses 'bout yer, en time atter time he comes out w'en you all done gone ter bed en sets up dar in de cornder en dozes, en me en him talks by de 'our; en w'at dat old rat dunno ain't down in de spellin' book.
1	W'y	W'y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:outer	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
26	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	dozes	doze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	en	en	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
52	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	down	down	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	60	compound	_	_
60	spellin	spellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	60	punct	_	_
62	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | W'y der | bout and en time and atter time |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bout=Patient |
| 2 | **come out** | present | w'at | atter time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set up** | present | w'en | dar |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dar=Result |
| 5 | **en** | past | me | w'at |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **talk** | present | en |  |  | en dozes |  | by de | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **dunno** |  | w'at dat |  |  |  |  |  | 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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