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title: "I wuz ole den, Miss Doshy--let lone w'at I is now; en you better b'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I wuz ole den, Miss Doshy--let lone w'at I is now; en you better b'leeve I bossed dem han's. Who acts: en. 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 68

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"I wuz ole den, Miss Doshy--let lone w'at I is now; en you better b'leeve I bossed dem han's.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** wuz, let, be, b'leeve, boss · **To what, where:** ole den, lone w'at, dem han

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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), 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:pg2306:46:68
# text = "I wuz ole den, Miss Doshy--let lone w'at I is now; en you better b'leeve I bossed dem han's.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Doshy	Doshy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	b'leeve	b'leeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bossed	boss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | en | ole den  Miss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | en *not said here* | lone w'at |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | en | lone w'at *not said here* |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **b'leeve** *in a quote* |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **boss** *in a quote* | past | en | dem han |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Beneficiary |

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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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