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title: Ef wunner deze yer scurshun trains had runned over me I couldn't er… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef wunner deze yer scurshun trains had runned over me I couldn't er bin wuss off. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 15

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Ef wunner deze yer scurshun trains had runned over me I couldn't er bin wuss off.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** runn, not er off · **To what, where:** Ef wunner deze, bin wuss

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. 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:pg2306:52:15
# text = Ef wunner deze yer scurshun trains had runned over me I couldn't er bin wuss off.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	scurshun	scurshun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	runned	runn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wuss	wuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **runn** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ef wunner deze |  |  |  | over me | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **er off** | could | I | bin wuss |  |  |  |  | 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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