--- title: But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs in de naberhood, w'ich ef dey'd git inter dey'd be wash off nice en w'ite, en den one un um, he fine de place en make er splunge inter de pon', en come out w'ite ez a town gal. Who acts: atter w'ile, er water some'rs, tergedder, er. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/) / 16 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 16 But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs in de naberhood, w'ich ef dey'd git inter dey'd be wash off nice en w'ite, en den one un um, he fine de place en make er splunge inter de pon', en come out w'ite ez a town gal. **Who acts:** atter w'ile, er water some'rs, tergedder, er, inter · **What happens:** come, wuz, be, make, splunge, come out · **To what, where:** dere, er, w'ite This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (atter w'ile, er water some'rs, tergedder, er), 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:pg2306:36:16 # text = But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs in de naberhood, w'ich ef dey'd git inter dey'd be wash off nice en w'ite, en den one un um, he fine de place en make er splunge inter de pon', en come out w'ite ez a town gal. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 atter atter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 w'ile w'ile NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 4 flat:foreign _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 8 dat dat ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 dere dere NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pon pon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 some'rs some'r NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 19 compound _ _ 19 naberhood naberhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'd 'd PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 26 inter int ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 w'ite w'ite NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 39 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 43 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 44 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 47 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 48 er er X GW _ 47 obj _ _ 49 splunge splunge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 inter inter NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 51 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 50 flat:foreign _ _ 52 pon pon NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ', ', PART POS _ 52 dep _ _ 54 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 55 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 56 out out ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 w'ite w'ite X FW Foreign=Yes 55 obl _ _ 58 ez ez X FW Foreign=Yes 57 flat:foreign _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 gal gal NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | atter w'ile and news | dere | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wuz** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | would | a pon's er water some'rs in de naberhood | | | | | one un um *obl*; wash *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | tergedder | er | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **splunge** | infinitive | er *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come out** | present | inter and pon and en | w'ite | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/17/) - ↑ back to [XXXIII. 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