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title: De leaves on de groun' 'uz so wet dey don't make no fuss, en I got i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De leaves on de groun' 'uz so wet dey don't make no fuss, en I got in de woods, en w'enever I year de Yankees gwine by, I des stop in my tracks en let un pass. Who acts: De, uz, I, fuss. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its depe
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 118

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De leaves on de groun' 'uz so wet dey don't make no fuss, en I got in de woods, en w'enever I year de Yankees gwine by, I des stop in my tracks en let un pass.

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**Who acts:** De, uz, I, fuss, tracks en · **What happens:** leave, not make, get in, gwine, stop, let · **To what, where:** de groun, de woods

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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 (De, uz, I, fuss), 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:pg2306:46:118
# text = De leaves on de groun' 'uz so wet dey don't make no fuss, en I got in de woods, en w'enever I year de Yankees gwine by, I des stop in my tracks en let un pass.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	uz	uz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	w'enever	w'enever	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	de	de	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Yankees	yankee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	des	des	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	compound	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	parataxis	_	_
42	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | De |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | uz and wet dey |  |  | de groun |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **get in** | past | I | de woods |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus |
| 4 | **gwine** |  | no fuss and en and en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stop** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | tracks en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pass** | infinitive | tracks en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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