---
title: Whar's yo' perwisions?" eying a chest with a rope around it. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Whar's yo' perwisions?" eying a chest with a rope around it. Who acts: yo. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/57/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XI. the Emigrants](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/57/) / 16

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Whar's yo' perwisions?" eying a chest with a rope around it.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** yo · **What happens:** eie · **To what, where:** chest

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:57:16
# text = Whar's yo' perwisions?" eying a chest with a rope around it.
1	Whar	Whar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	perwisions	perwision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	eying	eie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eie** *in a quote* | gerund | Whar's yo and perwisions *not said here* | a chest |  |  |  | with a rope around rope | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/57/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/57/17/)
- ↑ back to [XI. the Emigrants](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/57/)