--- title: I wuz stan'in' dat away in de aidge er de woods lookin' out cross a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: I wuz stan'in' dat away in de aidge er de woods lookin' out cross a clearin', w'en-- piff!--out come a little bunch er blue smoke fum de top er wunner dem big lonesome-lookin' pines, en den--pow! Who acts: I, er, woods lookin, little bunch. 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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 (I, er, woods lookin, little bunch), 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:pg2306:46:119 # text = I wuz stan'in' dat away in de aidge er de woods lookin' out cross a clearin', w'en-- piff!--out come a little bunch er blue smoke fum de top er wunner dem big lonesome-lookin' pines, en den--pow! 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stan'in stan'in NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 dat dat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 9 compound _ _ 9 aidge aidge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 10 er er X FW Foreign=Yes 13 nsubj _ _ 11 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 12 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 13 lookin lookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 clearin clearin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ', ', PART POS _ 18 dep _ _ 20 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 piff piff NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 out out ADP RP _ 26 obl _ _ 26 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 er er CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 fum fum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 34 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 33 obl _ _ 35 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 36 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 39 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 40 lonesome lonesome NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 lookin lookin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 pow pow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** | present | I | stan'in | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dat away** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lookin** | | er | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cross** | infinitive | woods lookin | clearin w'en | | | | in de aidge; out *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent w'en=Patient in aidge=Topic | | 5 | **come** | present | woods lookin *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fum** | present | a little bunch er blue smoke | de | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pine** | | wunner dem | | | | | | tree rules | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/120/) - ↑ back to [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/)