--- title: Dar she sets," continued the old man, gazing at it reflectively, "da… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dar she sets," continued the old man, gazing at it reflectively, "dar she sets dez ez natchul ez er ambertype, an' yit whar's de man w'at kin tell w'at kinder confab she's a gwineter carry on w'en dat corn-cob is snatched outen 'er mouf? Who acts: dar, dez, yit whar, w'at kinder confab. A sentence o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/12/) [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/) / [XIV. That Deceitful Jug](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/) / 12 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 12 Dar she sets," continued the old man, gazing at it reflectively, "dar she sets dez ez natchul ez er ambertype, an' yit whar's de man w'at kin tell w'at kinder confab she's a gwineter carry on w'en dat corn-cob is snatched outen 'er mouf? **Who acts:** dar, dez, yit whar, w'at kinder confab, whar, gwineter · **What happens:** set, continue, gaze, ambertype, kin, tell · **To what, where:** Dar, old man, ez natchul ez er ambertype, gwineter, w'en, dat corn cob · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dar, dez, yit whar, w'at kinder confab), 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:pg2306:60:12 # text = Dar she sets," continued the old man, gazing at it reflectively, "dar she sets dez ez natchul ez er ambertype, an' yit whar's de man w'at kin tell w'at kinder confab she's a gwineter carry on w'en dat corn-cob is snatched outen 'er mouf? 1 Dar Dar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 6 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 gazing gaze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 reflectively reflectively ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl:relcl _ _ 20 dez dez X FW Foreign=Yes 25 nsubj _ _ 21 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 natchul natchul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 ambertype ambertype NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 29 yit yit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 whar whar NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 kin kin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 37 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 confab confab NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 gwineter gwineter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 ccomp _ _ 44 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 48 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 cob cob NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 snatched snatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 acl:relcl _ _ 53 outen outen NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 54 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 er er X FW _ 56 compound _ _ 56 mouf mouf NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | present | dar | Dar *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dar=Result | | 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Dar | the old man | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 3 | **gaze** *in a quote* | gerund | Dar *not said here* | | | | | at w'at; reflectively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | | 4 | **set** | present | dar | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **ambertype** | | dez | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **kin** | | yit whar | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | w'at kinder confab | ez natchul ez er ambertype *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ambertype=Recipient | | 8 | **is a** | present | whar | a gwineter | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **carry** | infinitive | a gwineter *not said here* | | | w'en | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **snatch** | present · passive | w'en *not said here* | dat corn cob | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mouf=Theme | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/13/) - ↑ back to [XIV. 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