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title: He mont er bin name Slip-shot Sam, en he mouter bin name ole One-eye… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He mont er bin name Slip-shot Sam, en he mouter bin name ole One-eye Riley, w'ich ef 'twuz hit ain't bin handed roun' ter me. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 14

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He mont er bin name Slip-shot Sam, en he mouter bin name ole One-eye Riley, w'ich ef 'twuz hit ain't bin handed roun' ter me.

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**What happens:** name, not hand · **To what, where:** man, hit, me

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:1334`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:32:14
# text = He mont er bin name Slip-shot Sam, en he mouter bin name ole One-eye Riley, w'ich ef 'twuz hit ain't bin handed roun' ter me.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	mont	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	er	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	bin	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	name	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Slip	Slip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	shot	shot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	mouter	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	bin	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	name	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	ole	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Riley	Riley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	w'ich	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	dep	_	_
23	ef	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
25	twuz	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
26	hit	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	bin	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
31	roun	round	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	ter	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | might · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | might · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hand** | present · passive |  | hit *= it* | me |  |  | round *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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