--- title: Well, w'en you see two stran' er ha'r tied tergedder in a hoss's man… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Well, w'en you see two stran' er ha'r tied tergedder in a hoss's mane, dar you see a witch-stirrup, en, mo'n dat, dat hoss done bin rid by um." Who acts: you, two stran, dat hoss. 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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 (you, two stran, dat hoss), 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:pg2306:34:18 # text = Well, w'en you see two stran' er ha'r tied tergedder in a hoss's mane, dar you see a witch-stirrup, en, mo'n dat, dat hoss done bin rid by um." 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 stran stran NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 er er X FW _ 10 compound _ _ 10 ha'r ha'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 tergedder tergedder NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hoss hoss NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 mane mane NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 stirrup stirrup NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 mo'n mo'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 hoss hoss NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 rid rid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | you | w'en | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **tie** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **tergedder** | | two stran | | | a hoss's mane | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | present | you | a witch stirrup and en and mo'n dat | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stirrup=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | participle | dat hoss *not said here* | bin | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Eventuality | | 6 | **rid** | participle | | bin *not said here* | | | | by um | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/19/) - ↑ back to [XXXI. a Plantation Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/)