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title: "One night Miss Meadows en de gals dey gun a candy-pullin', en so ma… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One night Miss Meadows en de gals dey gun a candy-pullin', en so many er de nabers come in 'sponse ter de invite dat dey hatter put de 'lasses in de wash pot en b'il' de fier in de yard. Who acts: One night, er, many nabers. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Ha
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 5

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"One night Miss Meadows en de gals dey gun a candy-pullin', en so many er de nabers come in 'sponse ter de invite dat dey hatter put de 'lasses in de wash pot en b'il' de fier in de yard.

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**Who acts:** One night, er, many nabers · **What happens:** gal, naber, come, put · **To what, where:** dey gun, sponse ter

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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 (One night, er, many nabers), 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:pg2306:29:5
# text = "One night Miss Meadows en de gals dey gun a candy-pullin', en so many er de nabers come in 'sponse ter de invite dat dey hatter put de 'lasses in de wash pot en b'il' de fier in de yard.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	gals	gal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	candy	candy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pullin	pullin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	',	',	PART	POS	_	14	dep	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	nabers	naber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	sponse	sponse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
28	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
33	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	lasses	lass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
38	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	b'il	b'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	compound	_	_
44	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gal** *in a quote* | present | One night  Miss Meadows and en de | dey gun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **naber** *in a quote* |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | many nabers |  |  | sponse ter  dey hatter |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ter=Location |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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