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title: Des 'bout dat time I quit nuss'n 'im, but Miss Sally she kep' on. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Des 'bout dat time I quit nuss'n 'im, but Miss Sally she kep' on. Who acts: I, Miss Sally. 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 133

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Des 'bout dat time I quit nuss'n 'im, but Miss Sally she kep' on.

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**Who acts:** I, Miss Sally · **What happens:** quit, kep · **To what, where:** nuss'n

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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 (I, Miss Sally), 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:pg2306:46:133
# text = Des 'bout dat time I quit nuss'n 'im, but Miss Sally she kep' on.
1	Des	Des	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	quit	quit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	nuss'n	nuss'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** | present | I | nuss'n and im |  |  | time |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuss'n=Source |
| 2 | **kep** | infinitive | Miss Sally |  |  |  |  |  | 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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