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title: W'en hit come to dat I'm ole man Tumbler, fum Tumblersville--I is dat. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en hit come to dat I'm ole man Tumbler, fum Tumblersville--I is dat. Who acts: W'en, I. 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 32

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W'en hit come to dat I'm ole man Tumbler, fum Tumblersville--I is dat.

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**Who acts:** W'en, I · **What happens:** hit, come, be, fum · **To what, where:** dat, Tumbler, Tumblersville

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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 (W'en, 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:pg2306:55:32
# text = W'en hit come to dat I'm ole man Tumbler, fum Tumblersville--I is dat.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Tumbler	Tumbler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fum	fum	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	Tumblersville	Tumblersville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | W'en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | W'en *not said here* |  |  | dat |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dat=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | Tumbler |  |  |  | ole man *nmod:desc* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fum** | present |  | Tumblersville |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | I | dat |  |  |  |  | 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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