--- title: Sho nuff, out he goes, en de dogs ain't no mo'n got ter de place fo'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Sho nuff, out he goes, en de dogs ain't no mo'n got ter de place fo' up jump de old rabbit right 'mong um, en atter runnin''roun' a time or two, she skip right up ter Mars Jeems, en Mars Jeems, he des put de gun-bar'l right on 'er en lammed aloose. Who acts: Sho nuff, mo'n, nuff, er 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 (Sho nuff, mo'n, nuff, er 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:pg2306:34:36 # text = Sho nuff, out he goes, en de dogs ain't no mo'n got ter de place fo' up jump de old rabbit right 'mong um, en atter runnin''roun' a time or two, she skip right up ter Mars Jeems, en Mars Jeems, he des put de gun-bar'l right on 'er en lammed aloose. 1 Sho Sho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 mo'n mo'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 ter ter ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 fo fo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 up up ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 de de ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 26 right right ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 ' 's PART POS _ 25 case _ SpaceAfter=No 28 mong mong NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 runnin runnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 '' '' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 skip skip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 44 right right ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 up up ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 ter ter ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 Jeems Jeems PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 51 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ _ 52 Jeems Jeems PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 des de VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 56 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 amod _ _ 57 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 60 compound _ _ 58 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 bar'l bar'l NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 61 right right ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 62 on on ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 er er ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 66 lammed lam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 65 acl _ _ 67 aloose aloose NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Sho nuff | | | | | out *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **get** | past | no mo'n | de place fo and atter runnin | | | | up jump old rabbit's mong um | tree rules | | 3 | **skip** *in a quote* | present | mo'n | | | Mars and en | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mars=Trajectory | | 4 | **de** *in a quote* | present | nuff | put de gun bar'l | | er en | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lam** *in a quote* | participle | er en *not said here* | aloose | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aloose=Patient | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/37/) - ↑ back to [XXXI. a Plantation Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/)