--- title: "I know Mars John bin drivin' Cholly sorter hard ter-day, en I say t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I know Mars John bin drivin' Cholly sorter hard ter-day, en I say ter myse'f dat I'd drap 'round 'bout dus' en fling nudder year er corn in de troff en kinder gin 'im a techin' up wid de kurrier-koam; en bless grashus! Who acts: I, Mars, Cholly sorter, en. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mars, Cholly sorter, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:34:13 # text = "I know Mars John bin drivin' Cholly sorter hard ter-day, en I say ter myse'f dat I'd drap 'round 'bout dus' en fling nudder year er corn in de troff en kinder gin 'im a techin' up wid de kurrier-koam; en bless grashus! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 bin bin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 drivin drivin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 9 Cholly Cholly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 drap drap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 bout bout ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 dus dus NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fling fling NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 troff troff NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 gin gin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 im im ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 techin techin NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 46 compound _ _ 49 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 50 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 49 flat:foreign _ _ 51 kurrier kurrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 52 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 koam koam NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ; ; PUNCT : _ 56 punct _ _ 55 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 56 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 57 grashus grashus NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Mars | drivin and hard ter day and en | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drivin=Theme | | 3 | **day** *in a quote* | | Cholly sorter | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | I | ter myse'f dat | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic | | 5 | **drap** *in a quote* | would | I | ter myse'f dat *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | en | grashus | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/14/) - ↑ back to [XXXI. a Plantation Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/)