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title: "'Dat las' pull er yone wuz a mighty stiff un, en a leetle mo'n you'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Dat las' pull er yone wuz a mighty stiff un, en a leetle mo'n you'd er had me,' sezee. ' Who acts: you, las. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 32

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"'Dat las' pull er yone wuz a mighty stiff un, en a leetle mo'n you'd er had me,' sezee. '

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**Who acts:** you, las · **What happens:** have, pull · **To what, where:** den

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, las), 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:pg2306:29:32
# text = "'Dat las' pull er yone wuz a mighty stiff un, en a leetle mo'n you'd er had me,' sezee. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	er	er	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
8	yone	yone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	leetle	leetle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | would | you | den |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **pull** *in a quote* |  | that las |  |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=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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