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title: "Oh, we sorter knocks 'roun' an' picks up a livin'," responded one. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, we sorter knocks 'roun' an' picks up a livin'," responded one. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 10

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"Oh, we sorter knocks 'roun' an' picks up a livin'," responded one.

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**What happens:** pick up, respond · **To what, where:** roun, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:50:10
# text = "Oh, we sorter knocks 'roun' an' picks up a livin'," responded one.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	knocks	knock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	livin	livin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	',	',	PART	POS	_	15	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** *in a quote* | present |  | sorter knocks's roun |  |  |  | an *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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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