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title: De grinestone wuz in sight er de gate en close ter de big 'ouse, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De grinestone wuz in sight er de gate en close ter de big 'ouse, en dar I tuck my stan'. Who acts: I. 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 88

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De grinestone wuz in sight er de gate en close ter de big 'ouse, en dar I tuck my stan'.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tuck · **To what, where:** stan

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:46:88
# text = De grinestone wuz in sight er de gate en close ter de big 'ouse, en dar I tuck my stan'.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	grinestone	grinestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ouse	ouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	stan	stan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | present | I | my stan |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stan=Theme |

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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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