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title: Dey wuz mighty perlite, dem young chaps wuz; but Ole Miss, she never… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey wuz mighty perlite, dem young chaps wuz; but Ole Miss, she never tu'n 'er head, en Miss Sally, she look straight at de fier. Who acts: Dey wuz, wuz. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 101

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Dey wuz mighty perlite, dem young chaps wuz; but Ole Miss, she never tu'n 'er head, en Miss Sally, she look straight at de fier.

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**Who acts:** Dey wuz, wuz · **What happens:** chap, not tu'n, look · **To what, where:** wuz

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey wuz, wuz), 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:pg2306:46:101
# text = Dey wuz mighty perlite, dem young chaps wuz; but Ole Miss, she never tu'n 'er head, en Miss Sally, she look straight at de fier.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	perlite	perlite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	chaps	chap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	er	er	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
28	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
31	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chap** | present | Dey wuz and mighty perlite and dem | wuz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **tu'n** |  | wuz |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | wuz |  |  |  |  | at de fier; straight *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fier=Theme |

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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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