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title: "Wid dat I got up en tuck my stan' behime Ole Miss en Miss Sally, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wid dat I got up en tuck my stan' behime Ole Miss en Miss Sally, en de man w'at speak, he went up en worn his han's. Who acts: Wid dat, en, dat. 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 c
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 106

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"Wid dat I got up en tuck my stan' behime Ole Miss en Miss Sally, en de man w'at speak, he went up en worn his han's.

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**Who acts:** Wid dat, en, dat · **What happens:** get up, tuck, go up, wear · **To what, where:** en, behime, han

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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 (Wid dat, en, dat), 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:pg2306:46:106
# text = "Wid dat I got up en tuck my stan' behime Ole Miss en Miss Sally, en de man w'at speak, he went up en worn his han's.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** *in a quote* | past | Wid dat | en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tuck** *in a quote* | infinitive | en *not said here* | my behime  Miss  Miss en |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behime=Theme |
| 3 | **go up** *in a quote* | past | dat | en |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **wear** *in a quote* | participle | en *not said here* | dat's han |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent han=Source |

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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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