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title: She say she meet er angel in de road, an' he p'inted straight fer de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: She say she meet er angel in de road, an' he p'inted straight fer de mornin' star, an' tell her fer ter prepar'. Who acts: wuz, angel. 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 ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 12

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She say she meet er angel in de road, an' he p'inted straight fer de mornin' star, an' tell her fer ter prepar'.

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**Who acts:** wuz, angel · **What happens:** say, meet, p'int, tell · **To what, where:** angel, de road, fer mornin star, fer · **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, angel), 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:pg2306:59:12
# text = She say she meet er angel in de road, an' he p'inted straight fer de mornin' star, an' tell her fer ter prepar'.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
5	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	p'inted	p'int	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	prepar	prepar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | wuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | wuz | angel |  | de road |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **p'int** | past | angel | fer mornin star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | wuz's fer |  |  |  | ter prepar | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fer=Recipient |

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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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