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title: One time he tu'n roun' en look like he wanter say sump'n', but he de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: One time he tu'n roun' en look like he wanter say sump'n', but he des waf' his han'--so--en gallop on. 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 82

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One time he tu'n roun' en look like he wanter say sump'n', but he des waf' his han'--so--en gallop on.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** look, say, de · **To what, where:** sump'n, waf han · **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 (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:pg2306:46:82
# text = One time he tu'n roun' en look like he wanter say sump'n', but he des waf' his han'--so--en gallop on.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	tu'n	tu'n	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	waf	waf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | en *not said here* | sump'n |  |  |  | like wanter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sump'n=Topic |
| 3 | **de** | present | en | en's waf han |  |  |  |  | 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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