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title: He los' one arm in dat tree bizness, but me en Miss Sally we nuss 'i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He los' one arm in dat tree bizness, but me en Miss Sally we nuss 'im en we nuss 'im twel he done got well. Who acts: dat, we. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 132

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He los' one arm in dat tree bizness, but me en Miss Sally we nuss 'im en we nuss 'im twel he done got well.

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**Who acts:** dat, we · **What happens:** los, nuss, do, get · **To what, where:** one arm, im en, im twel

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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 (dat, we), 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:pg2306:46:132
# text = He los' one arm in dat tree bizness, but me en Miss Sally we nuss 'im en we nuss 'im twel he done got well.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	los	los	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	compound	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	nuss	nuss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	nuss	nuss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **los** | past | dat | one arm in tree bizness |  |  |  | me en *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **nuss** | present | we | im en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **nuss** | present | we | im twel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | dat | im twel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | participle | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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