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title: Cullud lady what wuz intranced done woke up an' say dey ain't much t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Cullud lady what wuz intranced done woke up an' say dey ain't much time fer ter tarry. Who acts: wuz, ai. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 11

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Cullud lady what wuz intranced done woke up an' say dey ain't much time fer ter tarry.

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**Who acts:** wuz, ai · **What happens:** intranc, do, wake up, say, ter · **To what, where:** wuz, Cullud lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz, ai), 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:pg2306:59:11
# text = Cullud lady what wuz intranced done woke up an' say dey ain't much time fer ter tarry.
1	Cullud	Cullud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	intranced	intranc	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	compound	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intranc** | participle |  | wuz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wake up** | past | wuz | Cullud lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ter** |  | ai |  |  |  |  |  | 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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