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title: Des ez sho's you er settin' dar lissenin' dey wuz a live Yankee up d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Des ez sho's you er settin' dar lissenin' dey wuz a live Yankee up dar in dat tree, en he wuz a loadin' en a shootin' at de boys des ez cool es a cowcumber in de jew, en he had his hoss hitch out in de bushes, kaze I year de creetur tromplin' 'roun'. Who acts: you, en, hoss, I. A sentence of «Uncle 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 123

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Des ez sho's you er settin' dar lissenin' dey wuz a live Yankee up dar in dat tree, en he wuz a loadin' en a shootin' at de boys des ez cool es a cowcumber in de jew, en he had his hoss hitch out in de bushes, kaze I year de creetur tromplin' 'roun'.

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**Who acts:** you, en, hoss, I, kaze year · **What happens:** er, wuz, have, hitch out, year, tromplin · **To what, where:** settin, en, de bushes

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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 (you, en, hoss, I), 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:pg2306:46:123
# text = Des ez sho's you er settin' dar lissenin' dey wuz a live Yankee up dar in dat tree, en he wuz a loadin' en a shootin' at de boys des ez cool es a cowcumber in de jew, en he had his hoss hitch out in de bushes, kaze I year de creetur tromplin' 'roun'.
1	Des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lissenin	lissenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Yankee	Yankee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	loadin	loadin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shootin	shootin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	nmod	_	_
35	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	des	des	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	conj	_	_
37	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cowcumber	cowcumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	jew	jew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	hitch	hitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
60	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	62	compound	_	_
61	creetur	creetur	X	FW	_	62	compound	_	_
62	tromplin	tromplin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	62	punct	_	_
64	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | present | you | settin and dar lissenin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuz** | present | en | a loadin's en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | en | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hitch out** | infinitive | en's hoss |  |  | de bushes |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **year** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tromplin** |  | kaze year |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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