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title: And then, without waiting for a reply: "Miss Sally, she sick in bed,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, without waiting for a reply: "Miss Sally, she sick in bed, en Mars John, he bleedzd ter go in de country, en dey tuck'n sont me. Who acts: John, ter, dey tuck'n. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 15

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And then, without waiting for a reply: "Miss Sally, she sick in bed, en Mars John, he bleedzd ter go in de country, en dey tuck'n sont me.

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**Who acts:** John, ter, dey tuck'n · **What happens:** wait, bleedz, go, sont · **To what, where:** de country, Vermont · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (John, ter, dey tuck'n), 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:pg2306:46:15
# text = And then, without waiting for a reply: "Miss Sally, she sick in bed, en Mars John, he bleedzd ter go in de country, en dey tuck'n sont me.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sont	sont	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | John *not said here* |  |  |  | then | for a reply | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bleedz** *in a quote* | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | ter |  |  | de country |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 4 | **sont** *in a quote* | past | dey tuck'n | Vermont |  |  |  |  | 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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