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title: "'De place wharbouts you spill de grease, Right dar you er boun' ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'De place wharbouts you spill de grease, Right dar you er boun' ter slide, An' whar you fin' a bunch er ha'r, You'll sholy fine de hide.' Who acts: place wharbouts, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 26

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"'De place wharbouts you spill de grease, Right dar you er boun' ter slide, An' whar you fin' a bunch er ha'r, You'll sholy fine de hide.'

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**Who acts:** place wharbouts, you · **What happens:** spill, er, fin, hide · **To what, where:** de grease, boun, whar

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place wharbouts, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:4:26
# text = "'De place wharbouts you spill de grease, Right dar you er boun' ter slide, An' whar you fin' a bunch er ha'r, You'll sholy fine de hide.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wharbouts	wharbout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spill	spill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fin	fin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	sholy	sholy	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
35	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	discourse	_	_
36	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spill** *in a quote* | present | place wharbouts | de grease and Right dar |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grease=Theme |
| 2 | **er** *in a quote* | present | you | boun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fin** *in a quote* | present | you | a whar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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