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title: Many's en many's de time dat I nuss dat boy, en hilt 'im in dese arm… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Many's en many's de time dat I nuss dat boy, en hilt 'im in dese arms, en toted 'im on dis back, en w'en I see dat Yankee lay dat gun 'cross a lim' en take aim at Mars Jeems I up wid my ole rifle, en shet my eyes en let de man have all she had." Who acts: Many en, I, en, de time dat. A sentence of «
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 128

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Many's en many's de time dat I nuss dat boy, en hilt 'im in dese arms, en toted 'im on dis back, en w'en I see dat Yankee lay dat gun 'cross a lim' en take aim at Mars Jeems I up wid my ole rifle, en shet my eyes en let de man have all she had."

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**Who acts:** Many en, I, en, de time dat, ole rifle, rifle · **What happens:** dat, nuss, tote, im back, see, lie · **To what, where:** boy, de time dat, dis, dat, dat gun, aim

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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 (Many en, I, en, de time dat), 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:pg2306:46:128
# text = Many's en many's de time dat I nuss dat boy, en hilt 'im in dese arms, en toted 'im on dis back, en w'en I see dat Yankee lay dat gun 'cross a lim' en take aim at Mars Jeems I up wid my ole rifle, en shet my eyes en let de man have all she had."
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	nuss	nuss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	dese	dese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	toted	tote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	Yankee	Yankee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
36	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lim	lim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
46	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
49	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	rifle	rifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
59	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	compound	_	_
61	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	ccomp	_	_
63	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	conj	_	_
66	all	all	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
67	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** |  | Many en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nuss** | present | I | that boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tote** | past | en | de time dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **im back** | participle | en *not said here* |  |  | dis |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present | I | dat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lie** | past | de time dat | dat gun |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gun=Theme |
| 7 | **cross** | infinitive | de time dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **take** | present | a lim's en | aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 9 | **wi** | past | I |  |  | Mars |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **let** | past | my ole rifle and en shet | de man |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 11 | **have** | present | my ole rifle and en shet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **have** | past | rifle |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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