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title: Much mo' an' I wouldn't make bread by wukkin' fer't, let 'lone folle… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Much mo' an' I wouldn't make bread by wukkin' fer't, let 'lone follerin' up a passel er boys an' gals all over keration. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 8

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Much mo' an' I wouldn't make bread by wukkin' fer't, let 'lone follerin' up a passel er boys an' gals all over keration.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not make, let · **To what, where:** bread, lone follerin, keration

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:56:8
# text = Much mo' an' I wouldn't make bread by wukkin' fer't, let 'lone follerin' up a passel er boys an' gals all over keration.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wukkin	wukkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fer't	fer't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	follerin	follerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	passel	passel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	keration	keration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | would | I | bread |  |  |  | by wukkin and fer't | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | lone follerin |  | keration |  | up a er boys and a gals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follerin=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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