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title: Las', one Chuseday, Miss Meadows, she tole um dat ef dey come down t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Las', one Chuseday, Miss Meadows, she tole um dat ef dey come down ter her house de nex' Sat'day evenin', de whole caboodle on um 'ud go down de road a piece, whar der wuz a big flint rock, en de man w'at could take a sludge-hammer en knock de dus' out'n dat rock, he wuz de man w'at 'ud git de pick 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 8

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Las', one Chuseday, Miss Meadows, she tole um dat ef dey come down ter her house de nex' Sat'day evenin', de whole caboodle on um 'ud go down de road a piece, whar der wuz a big flint rock, en de man w'at could take a sludge-hammer en knock de dus' out'n dat rock, he wuz de man w'at 'ud git de pick er de gals.

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**Who acts:** wanter, one Chuseday Miss Meadows, piece, big flint rock, dey · **What happens:** dey, come down, go down, wuz, take, pick · **To what, where:** hammer en knock, er de gals

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wanter, one Chuseday Miss Meadows, piece, big flint rock), 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:pg2306:33:8
# text = Las', one Chuseday, Miss Meadows, she tole um dat ef dey come down ter her house de nex' Sat'day evenin', de whole caboodle on um 'ud go down de road a piece, whar der wuz a big flint rock, en de man w'at could take a sludge-hammer en knock de dus' out'n dat rock, he wuz de man w'at 'ud git de pick er de gals.
1	Las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	',	',	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
4	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	tole	tole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Sat'day	Sat'day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	evenin	evenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	caboodle	caboodle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	de	de	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
42	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	46	conj	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
55	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
58	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
60	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	61	compound	_	_
61	dus	dus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	_
63	out'n	out'n	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
69	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
70	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	compound	_	_
71	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	conj	_	_
72	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	74	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	_
74	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	appos	_	_
75	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	74	flat:foreign	_	_
76	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	53	parataxis	_	_
77	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	compound	_	_
78	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	79	amod	_	_
79	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	76	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dey** |  | wanter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** | present | Las's one Chuseday Miss Meadows and dat ef dey |  |  |  |  | ter wanter's house and de nex; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **wuz** |  | a piece and whar |  |  |  |  | de road | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | could | a big flint rock and en and man w'at | a hammer en knock out'n dat rock |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Theme |
| 6 | **wuz** |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pick** | infinitive |  | er de gals |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gal=Patient |

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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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