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title: Leas'ways, he wuz settin' out dar by hisse'f, en dar he sot, en stud… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Leas'ways, he wuz settin' out dar by hisse'f, en dar he sot, en study en study, twel bimeby he jump up en holler out: Who acts: dey. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 29

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Leas'ways, he wuz settin' out dar by hisse'f, en dar he sot, en study en study, twel bimeby he jump up en holler out:

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**Who acts:** dey · **What happens:** settin, sot, jump up · **To what, where:** en holler

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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 (dey), 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:pg2306:22:29
# text = Leas'ways, he wuz settin' out dar by hisse'f, en dar he sot, en study en study, twel bimeby he jump up en holler out:
1	Leas'ways	leas'way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
8	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settin** |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sot** |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **jump up** | infinitive | dey | en holler |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme holler=Trajectory |

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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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