--- title: "Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-eight, Christ done made dat crook… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-eight, Christ done made dat crooked way straight-- En I don't wanter stay here no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-nine, Christ done turn dat water inter wine-- En I don't wanter stay here no longer." Who acts: eighteen hunder, En, wanter, Christ. 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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 (eighteen hunder, En, wanter, Christ), 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:pg2306:34:62 # text = "Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-eight, Christ done made dat crooked way straight-- En I don't wanter stay here no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-nine, Christ done turn dat water inter wine-- En I don't wanter stay here no longer." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hunder hunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'd 'd PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 17 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 crooked crooked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 En en NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 wanter wanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 27 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 28 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 no no ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 hunder hunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 'd 'd PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 46 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 ccomp _ _ 47 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 inter int ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 50 amod _ _ 50 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 -- -- PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 En en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 55 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 56 wanter wanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ _ 57 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 conj _ _ 58 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 57 advmod _ _ 59 no no ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 60 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 57 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Hit's eighteen hunder and forty en | made dat crooked way | | | | straight *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **not** **wanter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | En | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | wanter *not said here* | | | here | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Christ | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | Christ *not said here* | dat water | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent water=Theme wine=Result | | 7 | **not** **wanter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the little boy *= boy* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Christ *not said here* | | | here | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/61/) - next →: [XXXII. 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