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title: Boss, is enny er you all ever rastled wid de toofache?" — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Boss, is enny er you all ever rastled wid de toofache?" Who acts: you. 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 17

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Boss, is enny er you all ever rastled wid de toofache?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, rastl, toofache · **To what, where:** Boss enny

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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 (you), 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:pg2306:52:17
# text = Boss, is enny er you all ever rastled wid de toofache?"
1	Boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	rastled	rastl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	toofache	toofache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Boss enny er rastled wid de toofache |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rastl** | participle |  |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **toofache** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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