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title: Many's en many's de time," continued the old man, reflectively, "dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Many's en many's de time," continued the old man, reflectively, "dat I hatter take'n bresh dat boy on a counter his 'buzin' en beatin' dem yuther boys. Who acts: I, buzin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 58

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Many's en many's de time," continued the old man, reflectively, "dat I hatter take'n bresh dat boy on a counter his 'buzin' en beatin' dem yuther boys.

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**Who acts:** I, buzin · **What happens:** continue, hatter, bresh, boy · **To what, where:** old man, dat, dat boy, counter · **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 (I, buzin), 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:pg2306:46:58
# text = Many's en many's de time," continued the old man, reflectively, "dat I hatter take'n bresh dat boy on a counter his 'buzin' en beatin' dem yuther boys.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	reflectively	reflectively	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hatter	hatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	take'n	take'n	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bresh	bresh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	buzin	buzin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	beatin	beatin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	yuther	yuther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  | time | reflectively *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hatter** | present | I | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bresh** | infinitive | I *not said here* | dat boy |  | a counter |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **boy** |  | buzin |  |  |  |  |  | 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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