--- title: W'en ole Miss wuz livin'," continued the old man, still addressing s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: W'en ole Miss wuz livin'," continued the old man, still addressing some imaginary person, 'hit 'uz mo'n enny her chilluns 'ud dast ter do ter come 'sputin' longer me, en Mars John'll tell you de same enny day you ax 'im." Who acts: Miss wuz livin, ud dast ter, en Mars, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/) / 11 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 11 W'en ole Miss wuz livin'," continued the old man, still addressing some imaginary person, 'hit 'uz mo'n enny her chilluns 'ud dast ter do ter come 'sputin' longer me, en Mars John'll tell you de same enny day you ax 'im." **Who acts:** Miss wuz livin, ud dast ter, en Mars, you · **What happens:** continue, address, come, tell, ax · **To what, where:** W'en, imaginary person, sputin, de, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss wuz livin, ud dast ter, en Mars, you), 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:pg2306:23:11 # text = W'en ole Miss wuz livin'," continued the old man, still addressing some imaginary person, 'hit 'uz mo'n enny her chilluns 'ud dast ter do ter come 'sputin' longer me, en Mars John'll tell you de same enny day you ax 'im." 1 W'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 2 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 livin livin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 addressing address VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 16 imaginary imaginary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 hit hit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 uz uz NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 mo'n mo'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 24 enny enny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 chilluns chillun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 27 ' 's PART POS _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ud ud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 dast dast NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 sputin sputin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 44 obj _ _ 47 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 enny enny NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 52 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 im im X FW Foreign=Yes 46 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Miss wuz livin | W'en | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 2 | **address** *in a quote* | gerund | Miss wuz livin *not said here* | some imaginary person | | | still | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · do-support | ud dast ter | sputin | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sputin=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | en Mars | de | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient de=Topic | | 5 | **ax** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/12/) - ↑ back to [XX. 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