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title: Ole Miss useter call me up Sunday en read w'at de papers say 'bout M… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Miss useter call me up Sunday en read w'at de papers say 'bout Mars Jeems, en it ho'p 'er up might'ly. Who acts: Sunday en, w'at de papers, bout. 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 eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 60

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Ole Miss useter call me up Sunday en read w'at de papers say 'bout Mars Jeems, en it ho'p 'er up might'ly.

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**Who acts:** Sunday en, w'at de papers, bout · **What happens:** call up, read, say, ho'p · **To what, where:** me · **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 (Sunday en, w'at de papers, bout), 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:pg2306:46:60
# text = Ole Miss useter call me up Sunday en read w'at de papers say 'bout Mars Jeems, en it ho'p 'er up might'ly.
1	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	useter	useter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ho'p	ho'p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	might'ly	might'ly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Sunday en *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **read** | past | Sunday en |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | w'at de papers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ho'p** |  | bout |  |  |  |  |  | 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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