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title: De war come des like I tell you, en marters sorter rock along same l… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De war come des like I tell you, en marters sorter rock along same like dey allers did. Who acts: De war, I, en marters. 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 52

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De war come des like I tell you, en marters sorter rock along same like dey allers did.

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**Who acts:** De war, I, en marters · **What happens:** come, tell, do · **To what, where:** des, you · **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 (De war, I, en marters), 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:pg2306:46:52
# text = De war come des like I tell you, en marters sorter rock along same like dey allers did.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	marters	marter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	allers	aller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | des |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location des=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | past | en marters along same |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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