--- title: "Hit wuz dis way, boss: I wuz layin' in my bed dis mawnin' sorter ru… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Hit wuz dis way, boss: I wuz layin' in my bed dis mawnin' sorter ruminatin' 'roun', when de fus news I know'd I year a fus' 'mong de chickens, an' den my brissels riz. Who acts: you, policeman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/18/) [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/) / [XII. As a Murderer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/) / 18 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 18 "Hit wuz dis way, boss: I wuz layin' in my bed dis mawnin' sorter ruminatin' 'roun', when de fus news I know'd I year a fus' 'mong de chickens, an' den my brissels riz. **Who acts:** you, policeman · **What happens:** hit, wuz, know, riz · **To what, where:** dis way, layin, dis mawnin, fus news · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, policeman), 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:pg2306:58:18 # text = "Hit wuz dis way, boss: I wuz layin' in my bed dis mawnin' sorter ruminatin' 'roun', when de fus news I know'd I year a fus' 'mong de chickens, an' den my brissels riz. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 layin layin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 mawnin mawnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 ruminatin ruminatin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 26 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 28 advmod _ _ 27 fus fus ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fus fus NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 mong mong NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 brissels brissel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 compound _ _ 47 riz riz NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | dis way | | | | boss *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Co-Theme | | 2 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | the policeman *= policeman* | layin | | my dis mawnin and sorter ruminatin | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the policeman *= policeman* | fus news | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **riz** *in a quote* | would | the policeman *= policeman* | | | | | | tree rules | 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/pg2306/58/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/19/) - ↑ back to [XII. As a Murderer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/)