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title: Hit went on dis way year in en year out, en dem wuz lonesome times,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit went on dis way year in en year out, en dem wuz lonesome times, sho's you bawn, Miss Doshy--lonesome times, sho. Who acts: you. 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 63

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Hit went on dis way year in en year out, en dem wuz lonesome times, sho's you bawn, Miss Doshy--lonesome times, sho.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hit, go, bawn · **To what, where:** dis way

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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 (you), 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:pg2306:46:63
# text = Hit went on dis way year in en year out, en dem wuz lonesome times, sho's you bawn, Miss Doshy--lonesome times, sho.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	lonesome	lonesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bawn	bawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	Doshy	Doshy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lonesome	lonesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | dis way | time; year | out *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bawn** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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