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title: Hit wuz wunner deze yer fo'-prong fellers. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit wuz wunner deze yer fo'-prong fellers. 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 40

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Hit wuz wunner deze yer fo'-prong fellers.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hit · **To what, where:** wunner deze

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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:pg2306:52:40
# text = Hit wuz wunner deze yer fo'-prong fellers.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
6	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	prong	prong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fellers	feller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | wunner deze |  |  |  | y *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deze=Co-Theme |

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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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