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title: She had de powder in dar, sho', but I disremember wedder I put de bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: She had de powder in dar, sho', but I disremember wedder I put de buckshot in, er wedder I lef' um out. Who acts: oman, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 35

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She had de powder in dar, sho', but I disremember wedder I put de buckshot in, er wedder I lef' um out.

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**Who acts:** oman, I · **What happens:** de, disremember, put, lef · **To what, where:** powder, dar, de buckshot

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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 (oman, 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:pg2306:58:35
# text = She had de powder in dar, sho', but I disremember wedder I put de buckshot in, er wedder I lef' um out.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	de	de	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	disremember	disremember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
13	wedder	wed	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	buckshot	buckshot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	wedder	wed	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | past · perfect | oman | powder |  | dar and sho |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disremember** | present | I |  |  |  |  | wed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | I | de buckshot |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent buckshot=Goal |
| 4 | **lef** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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