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title: Miss Sally wuz a readin' in de papers las' Chuseday, an' she say dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Sally wuz a readin' in de papers las' Chuseday, an' she say dat's it's a mighty big watchyoumaycollum." Who acts: Miss, readin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 4

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Miss Sally wuz a readin' in de papers las' Chuseday, an' she say dat's it's a mighty big watchyoumaycollum."

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**Who acts:** Miss, readin · **What happens:** wuz, say, be · **To what, where:** readin, de papers, mighty big watchyoumaycollum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, readin), 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:pg2306:53:4
# text = Miss Sally wuz a readin' in de papers las' Chuseday, an' she say dat's it's a mighty big watchyoumaycollum."
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	readin	readin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	compound	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	watchyoumaycollum	watchyoumaycollum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** | present | Miss | a readin |  | de papers  las's Chuseday |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | readin | a say dat's mighty big watchyoumaycollum |  |  |  |  | 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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