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title: "Co'se," said Uncle Remus, addressing himself to Miss Theodosia, "yo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se," said Uncle Remus, addressing himself to Miss Theodosia, "you ain't bin to Putmon, en you dunner whar de Brad Slaughter place en Harmony Grove is, but Mars John en Miss Sally, dey bin dar a time er two, en dey knows how de lan' lays. Who acts: Co'se, you, en, er en dey. A sentence of «Uncle 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 48

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"Co'se," said Uncle Remus, addressing himself to Miss Theodosia, "you ain't bin to Putmon, en you dunner whar de Brad Slaughter place en Harmony Grove is, but Mars John en Miss Sally, dey bin dar a time er two, en dey knows how de lan' lays.

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**Who acts:** Co'se, you, en, er en dey, John en · **What happens:** say, address, not bin, whar, be, know · **To what, where:** Remus, Miss, Putmon, Brad place en, de lan · **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 (Co'se, you, en, er en dey), 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:pg2306:46:48
# text = "Co'se," said Uncle Remus, addressing himself to Miss Theodosia, "you ain't bin to Putmon, en you dunner whar de Brad Slaughter place en Harmony Grove is, but Mars John en Miss Sally, dey bin dar a time er two, en dey knows how de lan' lays.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	co'se	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	Theodosia	Theodosia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Putmon	Putmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
27	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Brad	Brad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	Slaughter	Slaughter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	Harmony	Harmony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	Grove	Grove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
37	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
40	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
41	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
49	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
54	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
55	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	lan	lan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	_
58	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Co'se |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **address** | gerund | Co'se *not said here* | Remus | Miss |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **bin** *in a quote* |  | you |  | Putmon |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whar** *in a quote* |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | en *not said here* | Brad place en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | er en dey | de lan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lan=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | John en and bin dar |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «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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