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title: He got a overseer fer ter look atter de place, en he went en jined d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He got a overseer fer ter look atter de place, en he went en jined de army. Who acts: en, fer ter. 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 56

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He got a overseer fer ter look atter de place, en he went en jined de army.

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**Who acts:** en, fer ter · **What happens:** get, look, go, jin · **To what, where:** overseer, atter de place, en jined de army

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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, fer ter), 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:pg2306:46:56
# text = He got a overseer fer ter look atter de place, en he went en jined de army.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	jined	jin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | en | a overseer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer overseer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | fer ter | atter de place and en |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** | past | en | en jined de army |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme |
| 4 | **jin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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