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title: He had a spy-glass up dar, en w'iles I wuz a watchin' un 'im, he rai… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a spy-glass up dar, en w'iles I wuz a watchin' un 'im, he raise 'er up en look thoo 'er, en den he lay 'er down en fix his gun fer ter shoot. Who acts: en, I, raise. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree an
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 124

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He had a spy-glass up dar, en w'iles I wuz a watchin' un 'im, he raise 'er up en look thoo 'er, en den he lay 'er down en fix his gun fer ter shoot.

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**Who acts:** en, I, raise · **What happens:** have up, wuz, raise, look, lie, fix · **To what, where:** spy glass, en w'iles, thoo, en den, fer ter shoot

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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 (en, I, raise), 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:pg2306:46:124
# text = He had a spy-glass up dar, en w'iles I wuz a watchin' un 'im, he raise 'er up en look thoo 'er, en den he lay 'er down en fix his gun fer ter shoot.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
8	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	watchin	watchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	im	im	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	raise	raise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
28	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
42	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
44	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have up** | past | en | a spy glass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuz** | present | I | en w'iles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **raise** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | raise | thoo |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thoo=Attribute |
| 5 | **lie** | past | en | en den |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fix** | infinitive | en | en's fer ter shoot |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoot=Patient |

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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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