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title: W'at you want wid me?' en off he put like sump'n wuz atter 'im. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'at you want wid me?' en off he put like sump'n wuz atter 'im. Who acts: you, W'at, nip. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 9

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W'at you want wid me?' en off he put like sump'n wuz atter 'im.

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**Who acts:** you, W'at, nip · **What happens:** want, wid, put · **To what, where:** W'at, me

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, W'at, nip), 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:pg2306:20:9
# text = W'at you want wid me?' en off he put like sump'n wuz atter 'im.
1	W'at	w'at	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wid	wid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | you | W'at |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wid** *not said to happen* | infinitive | W'at *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | nip |  |  |  |  | like wuz atter's im | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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