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title: "'Well, boss,' sez I, 'I bin cuttin' some wood fer Ole Miss, en I de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Well, boss,' sez I, 'I bin cuttin' some wood fer Ole Miss, en I des stop fer ter worn my han's a little,' sez I. Who acts: en, han, boss. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 104

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"'Well, boss,' sez I, 'I bin cuttin' some wood fer Ole Miss, en I des stop fer ter worn my han's a little,' sez I.

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**Who acts:** en, han, boss · **What happens:** bin, stop, wear, be, say · **To what, where:** cuttin, fer ter, I. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (en, han, boss), 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:pg2306:46:104
# text = "'Well, boss,' sez I, 'I bin cuttin' some wood fer Ole Miss, en I des stop fer ter worn my han's a little,' sez I.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	sez	sez	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	cuttin	cuttin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
19	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
36	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	I.	I.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	obj	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | en | cuttin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | en | fer ter |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ter=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wear** *in a quote* | participle |  | fer ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my han |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | boss sez I | I. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=Topic |

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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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