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title: "'Well, den, Mars Jeems,' sez I, 'you know'd 'twa'nt no use fer ter… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Well, den, Mars Jeems,' sez I, 'you know'd 'twa'nt no use fer ter ax me ter take keer Ole Miss en Miss Sally.' Who acts: you, twa'nt, ter. 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 80

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"'Well, den, Mars Jeems,' sez I, 'you know'd 'twa'nt no use fer ter ax me ter take keer Ole Miss en Miss Sally.'

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**Who acts:** you, twa'nt, ter · **What happens:** know, ax, take · **To what, where:** den, en, keer · **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 (you, twa'nt, ter), 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:pg2306:46:80
# text = "'Well, den, Mars Jeems,' sez I, 'you know'd 'twa'nt no use fer ter ax me ter take keer Ole Miss en Miss Sally.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	sez	sez	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	twa'nt	twa'nt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
21	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
28	keer	keer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | den sez I |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ax** *in a quote* | would | twa'nt | en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present | ter | keer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument keer=Theme en=Destination |

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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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