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title: En ef ole man M'thoozlum wuz livin' clean twel yit, he'd up'n tell y… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En ef ole man M'thoozlum wuz livin' clean twel yit, he'd up'n tell you de same. Who acts: yit, clean twel yit. 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 21

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En ef ole man M'thoozlum wuz livin' clean twel yit, he'd up'n tell you de same.

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**Who acts:** yit, clean twel yit · **What happens:** up'n, tell · **To what, where:** clean twel yit, same, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (yit, clean twel yit), 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:pg2306:22:21
# text = En ef ole man M'thoozlum wuz livin' clean twel yit, he'd up'n tell you de same.
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	M'thoozlum	M'thoozlum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	livin	livin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	up'n	up'n	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **up'n** | would | yit | clean twel yit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | clean twel yit | de same | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient same=Topic |

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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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