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title: When de war come long he wuz livin' dere longer Ole Miss en Miss Sal… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: When de war come long he wuz livin' dere longer Ole Miss en Miss Sally. Who acts: de war, war, long wuz. 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 50

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When de war come long he wuz livin' dere longer Ole Miss en Miss Sally.

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**Who acts:** de war, war, long wuz · **What happens:** come, wuz, livin · **To what, where:** Ole Miss en

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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 (de war, war, long wuz), 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:pg2306:46:50
# text = When de war come long he wuz livin' dere longer Ole Miss en Miss Sally.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	livin	livin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
10	dere	dere	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | de war |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wuz** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **livin** | gerund | long wuz *not said here* | Ole Miss en |  |  |  |  | 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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