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title: "'Remus,' sez she, 'dish yer's w'at de papers say 'bout my baby,' en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Remus,' sez she, 'dish yer's w'at de papers say 'bout my baby,' en den she'd read out twel she couldn't read fer cryin'. Who acts: Remus, w'at de papers, lady. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 62

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"'Remus,' sez she, 'dish yer's w'at de papers say 'bout my baby,' en den she'd read out twel she couldn't read fer cryin'.

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**Who acts:** Remus, w'at de papers, lady · **What happens:** say, read out, not read · **To what, where:** lady, dish, twel, fer cryin · **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 (Remus, w'at de papers, lady), 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:pg2306:46:62
# text = "'Remus,' sez she, 'dish yer's w'at de papers say 'bout my baby,' en den she'd read out twel she couldn't read fer cryin'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	cryin	cryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Remus | lady |  |  |  | dish *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | yer's w'at de papers | dish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read out** *in a quote* | would | lady | twel |  |  |  | bout my baby and en den | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twel=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **read** *in a quote* | could | lady | fer cryin |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cryin=Topic |

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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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