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title: De wud wern't mo'n out'n his mouf 'fo' de groun' 'uz brok'd up en de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De wud wern't mo'n out'n his mouf 'fo' de groun' 'uz brok'd up en de goobers 'uz planted. Who acts: De. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 2

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De wud wern't mo'n out'n his mouf 'fo' de groun' 'uz brok'd up en de goobers 'uz planted.

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** not wu, out'n, ' up, plant · **To what, where:** wer, mouf, uz

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De), 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:pg2306:26:2
# text = De wud wern't mo'n out'n his mouf 'fo' de groun' 'uz brok'd up en de goobers 'uz planted.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wud	wu	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
5	mo'n	mo'n	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	out'n	out'n	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	uz	uz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	brok	brok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	de	de	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	goobers	goober	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	uz	uz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wu** | past | De | wer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **out'n** | infinitive | De *not said here* | De's mouf |  |  |  | brok 'd en de goobers's uz *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **' up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **plant** | participle |  | goobers's uz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «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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