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title: Hit didn't strike me dat dey wuz enny war gwine on, en ef I hadn't s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit didn't strike me dat dey wuz enny war gwine on, en ef I hadn't sorter miss de nabers, en seed fokes gwine outer de way fer ter ax de news, I'd a 'lowed ter myse'f dat de war wuz 'way off 'mong some yuther country. Who acts: I, en ef, gwine. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 53

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Hit didn't strike me dat dey wuz enny war gwine on, en ef I hadn't sorter miss de nabers, en seed fokes gwine outer de way fer ter ax de news, I'd a 'lowed ter myse'f dat de war wuz 'way off 'mong some yuther country.

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**Who acts:** I, en ef, gwine · **What happens:** not strike, have, not miss, ax, low · **To what, where:** me, en ef, nabers, seed fokes

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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, en ef, gwine), 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:pg2306:46:53
# text = Hit didn't strike me dat dey wuz enny war gwine on, en ef I hadn't sorter miss de nabers, en seed fokes gwine outer de way fer ter ax de news, I'd a 'lowed ter myse'f dat de war wuz 'way off 'mong some yuther country.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	strike	strike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
22	nabers	naber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	compound	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
32	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	compound	_	_
35	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	lowed	low	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
42	ter	ter	X	FW	_	43	compound	_	_
43	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
44	dat	dat	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	conj	_	_
45	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	flat	_	_
46	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
50	off	off	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
54	yuther	yuther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **strike** | infinitive · do-support |  | me |  |  |  | dat dey wuz | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument |
| 2 | **have** | past | I | en ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **miss** | infinitive | en ef *not said here* | nabers and seed fokes |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naber=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ax** |  | gwine | seed fokes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **low** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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