--- title: Mars Jeems wuz wid dem Wheeler fellers, en I know'd ef dey wuz dat c… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Mars Jeems wuz wid dem Wheeler fellers, en I know'd ef dey wuz dat close I wa'n't doin' no good settin' 'roun' de house toas'n my shins at de fier, so I des tuck Mars Jeems's rifle fum behime de do' en put out ter look atter my stock. Who acts: Mars, I, 'd, good settin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mars, I, 'd, good settin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:46:115 # text = Mars Jeems wuz wid dem Wheeler fellers, en I know'd ef dey wuz dat close I wa'n't doin' no good settin' 'roun' de house toas'n my shins at de fier, so I des tuck Mars Jeems's rifle fum behime de do' en put out ter look atter my stock. 1 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 Jeems Jeems PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Wheeler wheeler NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fellers feller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'd 'd X GW _ 21 nsubj _ _ 13 ef ef ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 16 dat dat ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 17 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 wa' wa' INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 doin doin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 31 compound _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 32 toas'n toas'n X FW Foreign=Yes 31 appos _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 shins shin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 37 compound _ _ 37 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 41 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 42 tuck tuck NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 43 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ _ 44 Jeems Jeems PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 46 rifle rifle NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 fum fum VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 48 behime behime NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 flat _ _ 50 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 53 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 acl _ _ 54 out out ADP RP _ 53 compound:prt _ _ 55 ter ter PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 advcl _ _ 57 atter att ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 56 xcomp _ _ 58 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feller** | | Mars | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | I | en *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **doin** | | 'd | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **house** | | no good settin | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fum** | infinitive | I | behime | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present | wid Wheeler fellers and en | en | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **put out** | participle | | en *not said here* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | att *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **stock** | | my | | | | | | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/116/) - ↑ back to [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/)