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title: Dey wuz all dere, en dey wern't cuttin' up no didos, nudder, kaze Mi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey wuz all dere, en dey wern't cuttin' up no didos, nudder, kaze Miss Meadows, she done put her foot down, she did, en say dat w'en dey come ter her place dey hatter hang up a flag er truce at de front gate en 'bide by it. Who acts: wuz, Dey wuz, en, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and H
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 7

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Dey wuz all dere, en dey wern't cuttin' up no didos, nudder, kaze Miss Meadows, she done put her foot down, she did, en say dat w'en dey come ter her place dey hatter hang up a flag er truce at de front gate en 'bide by it.

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**Who acts:** wuz, Dey wuz, en, dat · **What happens:** do, put down, say, come, hang up, bide · **To what, where:** Dey wuz, foot, er truce, de front gate en · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wuz, Dey wuz, en, dat), 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:pg2306:29:7
# text = Dey wuz all dere, en dey wern't cuttin' up no didos, nudder, kaze Miss Meadows, she done put her foot down, she did, en say dat w'en dey come ter her place dey hatter hang up a flag er truce at de front gate en 'bide by it.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	cuttin	cuttin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	didos	dido	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
38	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	truce	truce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	bide	bide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | wuz | Dey wuz and dey wer and cuttin up no didos and nudder and kaze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wuz=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put down** | past | Dey wuz and dey wer and cuttin up no didos and nudder and kaze | wuz's foot |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
| 3 | **do** | past | wuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | present | dat and dey |  |  |  |  | ter en's dey hatter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hang up** | infinitive |  | a er truce |  | de front gate en |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at en=Location |
| 7 | **bide** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by dat | tree rules |

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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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