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title: I went dar fer ter sing, an' fer ter pray, an' fer ter wushup, an' I… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I went dar fer ter sing, an' fer ter pray, an' fer ter wushup, an' I mos' giner'lly allers had a stray shin-plarster w'ich de ole 'oman say she want sont out dar ter dem cullud fokes 'cross de water. Who acts: I, ole oman, oman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 13

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I went dar fer ter sing, an' fer ter pray, an' fer ter wushup, an' I mos' giner'lly allers had a stray shin-plarster w'ich de ole 'oman say she want sont out dar ter dem cullud fokes 'cross de water.

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**Who acts:** I, ole oman, oman · **What happens:** go, sing, pray, wushup, have, say · **To what, where:** stray shin plarster, cullud fokes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ole oman, oman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:1943`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:48:13
# text = I went dar fer ter sing, an' fer ter pray, an' fer ter wushup, an' I mos' giner'lly allers had a stray shin-plarster w'ich de ole 'oman say she want sont out dar ter dem cullud fokes 'cross de water.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dar	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	fer	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	ter	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
10	fer	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	ter	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
16	fer	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	ter	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wushup	wushup	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	an	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	mos	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	giner'lly	giner'lly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	allers	always	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	plarster	plarster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
33	w'ich	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
34	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	ole	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
37	oman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
41	sont	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	xcomp	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	dar	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
44	ter	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	dem	them	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
46	cullud	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	fokes	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
49	cross	across	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **wushup** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | I | a stray shin plarster |  |  |  | always, giner'lly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plarster=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the ole oman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **want** | present | oman *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **send out** *not said to happen* | participle | oman *= woman* *not said here* |  |  | them cullud fokes across the water; there |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to folk=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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