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title: He des tuck'n say he wuz gwineter ride dat ar roan mule er Mars John… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He des tuck'n say he wuz gwineter ride dat ar roan mule er Mars John's de udder Sunday, an' de mule, she up'n do like she got nudder ingagement. Who acts: Dat, mule. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 10

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He des tuck'n say he wuz gwineter ride dat ar roan mule er Mars John's de udder Sunday, an' de mule, she up'n do like she got nudder ingagement.

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**Who acts:** Dat, mule · **What happens:** de, say, wuz, do, get · **To what, where:** Sunday, nudder ingagement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat, mule), 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:pg2306:47:10
# text = He des tuck'n say he wuz gwineter ride dat ar roan mule er Mars John's de udder Sunday, an' de mule, she up'n do like she got nudder ingagement.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	ar	ar	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	roan	roan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	er	er	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
14	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
29	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	ingagement	ingagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | present | Dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Dat *not said here* |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wuz** |  | Dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | mule | Sunday  Mars John's de udder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunday=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | past | mule | nudder ingagement |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ingagement=Stimulus |

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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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