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title: But all dis time de fuss wuz gwine on, en Mars Jeems, he wuz des eat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But all dis time de fuss wuz gwine on, en Mars Jeems, he wuz des eatchin' fer ter put in. Who acts: en. 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 54

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But all dis time de fuss wuz gwine on, en Mars Jeems, he wuz des eatchin' fer ter put in.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** wuz, put in · **To what, where:** eatchin fer ter

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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 (en), 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:pg2306:46:54
# text = But all dis time de fuss wuz gwine on, en Mars Jeems, he wuz des eatchin' fer ter put in.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	des	des	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	eatchin	eatchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** |  | en | eatchin fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put in** | participle |  | eatchin fer ter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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