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title: "W'at does you season your recollection wid fer ter make it hol' on… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'at does you season your recollection wid fer ter make it hol' on so?" inquired the old man. Who acts: recollection, old man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 18

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"W'at does you season your recollection wid fer ter make it hol' on so?" inquired the old man.

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**Who acts:** recollection, old man · **What happens:** ter, make, inquire · **To what, where:** ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection, old man), 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:pg2306:55:18
# text = "W'at does you season your recollection wid fer ter make it hol' on so?" inquired the old man.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	recollection	recollection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ter** *in a quote* |  | recollection |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present |  | ter |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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