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title: "W'at dat long rigmarole you bin tellin' Miss Sally 'bout yo' little… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'at dat long rigmarole you bin tellin' Miss Sally 'bout yo' little brer dis mawnin?" Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 12

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"W'at dat long rigmarole you bin tellin' Miss Sally 'bout yo' little brer dis mawnin?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bin · **To what, where:** W'at dat

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:22:12
# text = "W'at dat long rigmarole you bin tellin' Miss Sally 'bout yo' little brer dis mawnin?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rigmarole	rigmarole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	brer	br	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | you | W'at dat and long rigmarole |  |  |  | Miss Sally's bout yo *obl* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tellin=Theme |

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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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