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title: Ef 'twuz shucks, now, hit mout be diffunt, but I'm a gittin' too ole… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef 'twuz shucks, now, hit mout be diffunt, but I'm a gittin' too ole fer ter be projickin' 'longer shuck collars." Who acts: twuz, I, longer shuck. 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 prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 5

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Ef 'twuz shucks, now, hit mout be diffunt, but I'm a gittin' too ole fer ter be projickin' 'longer shuck collars."

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**Who acts:** twuz, I, longer shuck · **What happens:** shuck, hit, be, collar · **To what, where:** mout diffunt, ter projickin

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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 (twuz, I, longer shuck), 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:pg2306:22:5
# text = Ef 'twuz shucks, now, hit mout be diffunt, but I'm a gittin' too ole fer ter be projickin' 'longer shuck collars."
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	twuz	twuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shucks	shuck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	diffunt	diffunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	projickin	projickin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	shuck	shuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	collars	collar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shuck** | present | Ef's twuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hit** | infinitive | Ef's twuz *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | mout diffunt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | ter projickin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **collar** | present | longer shuck |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: 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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