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title: Ef dere's ruinashun ennywhar in de known wurril, she goes in de comp… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef dere's ruinashun ennywhar in de known wurril, she goes in de comp'ny uv a hongry nigger w'at's a totin' pies 'roun.' Who acts: dere ruinashun ennywhar, boss, hongry nigger w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 11

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Ef dere's ruinashun ennywhar in de known wurril, she goes in de comp'ny uv a hongry nigger w'at's a totin' pies 'roun.'

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**Who acts:** dere ruinashun ennywhar, boss, hongry nigger w'at · **What happens:** know, go, be · **To what, where:** wurril, de comp'ny uv, roun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dere ruinashun ennywhar, boss, hongry nigger w'at), 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:pg2306:51:11
# text = Ef dere's ruinashun ennywhar in de known wurril, she goes in de comp'ny uv a hongry nigger w'at's a totin' pies 'roun.'
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	ruinashun	ruinashun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ennywhar	ennywhar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	wurril	wurril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
15	comp'ny	comp'ny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	totin	totin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	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 | **know** | participle | dere ruinashun ennywhar in de *not said here* | wurril |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wurril=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | boss |  |  | de comp'ny uv |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ultra-violet=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a hongry nigger w'at | totin's pies's roun |  |  |  |  | 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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