--- title: Dey sorter come on wid a col', like--leas'ways dat's how I commence… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dey sorter come on wid a col', like--leas'ways dat's how I commence fer ter suffer, an' den er koff got straddle er de col'--one dese yer koffs w'at look like hit goes ter de foundash'n. Who acts: Dey sorter, I, fer ter, er. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey sorter, I, fer ter, er), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:56:18 # text = Dey sorter come on wid a col', like--leas'ways dat's how I commence fer ter suffer, an' den er koff got straddle er de col'--one dese yer koffs w'at look like hit goes ter de foundash'n. 1 Dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 col col NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ', ', PART POS _ 7 dep _ _ 9 like like INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 leas'ways leas'way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 compound _ _ 12 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 commence commence VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 17 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 24 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 nsubj _ _ 25 koff koff NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 straddle straddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 er er X FW _ 30 compound _ _ 29 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 col col NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 dese dese NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 35 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 koffs koff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 compound _ _ 37 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 like like SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 hit hit NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 42 ter ter X FW _ 44 compound _ _ 43 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 42 flat:foreign _ _ 44 foundash'n foundash'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | infinitive | Dey sorter | | | wid and a den | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wid=Location | | 2 | **commence** | present | I | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **suffer** | present | fer ter | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **get** | past | er | straddle and one dese | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer straddle=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | koffs w'at | one dese *not said here* | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dese=Attribute | | 6 | **go** | present | hit | ter foundash'n | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foundash'n=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/19/) - ↑ back to [X. a Case of Measles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/)