--- title: "Hit wuz wunner dese yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I speck," said… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Hit wuz wunner dese yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I speck," said the old man; "dey wuz allers bodder'n' longer udder fokes's bizness, en dey keeps at it down ter dis day--peckin' yer, en pickin' dar, en scratchin' out yander. Who acts: old man, en dey. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, en dey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:22:25 # text = "Hit wuz wunner dese yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I speck," said the old man; "dey wuz allers bodder'n' longer udder fokes's bizness, en dey keeps at it down ter dis day--peckin' yer, en pickin' dar, en scratchin' out yander. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dese dese NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 7 uppity uppity ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Sparrers Sparrer PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 speck speck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 allers aller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 bodder'n bodder'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 28 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 bizness bizness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 39 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 peckin peckin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 pickin pickin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 scratchin scratchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 56 yander yander NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive | | wunner dese | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent dese=Patient sparrer=Result | | 2 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | the old man *= man* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep down** *in a quote* | present | en dey | yander | | bizness | day | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yander=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/22/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/22/26/) - ↑ back to [XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/22/)