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title: I'll des put yo' calamus root out yer on dish yer stump. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll des put yo' calamus root out yer on dish yer stump. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 36

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I'll des put yo' calamus root out yer on dish yer stump.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** calamus root, dish

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:4:36
# text = I'll des put yo' calamus root out yer on dish yer stump.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	calamus	calamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	yer	y	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | future | I | yo's calamus root |  | dish |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent root=Asset stump=Goal |

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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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