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title: He des stop long nuff fer ter change hosses en snatch a mouffle er s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He des stop long nuff fer ter change hosses en snatch a mouffle er sump'n ter eat, but 'fo' he rid off, he call me up en say, sez he: Who acts: Putmon, long nuff fer, ter, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 74

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He des stop long nuff fer ter change hosses en snatch a mouffle er sump'n ter eat, but 'fo' he rid off, he call me up en say, sez he:

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**Who acts:** Putmon, long nuff fer, ter, en · **What happens:** stop, snatch, eat, rid off, call up, say · **To what, where:** mouffle er, me, Putmon · **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 (Putmon, long nuff fer, ter, 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:pg2306:46:74
# text = He des stop long nuff fer ter change hosses en snatch a mouffle er sump'n ter eat, but 'fo' he rid off, he call me up en say, sez he:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hosses	hoss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	snatch	snatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mouffle	mouffle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	sump'n	sump'n	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rid	rid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Putmon |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **snatch** | present | long nuff fer and hosses en | a mouffle er |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | ter | a mouffle er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Patient |
| 4 | **rid off** | past | Putmon |  |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Putmon |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Putmon |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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