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title: I wuz comm' 'cross de bridge des now, an' Brer John Henry seed me wi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I wuz comm' 'cross de bridge des now, an' Brer John Henry seed me wid de bag slung onter my back, an' de jug in it, an' he ups an' sez, sezee: Who acts: I, me, git, '. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree an
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 21

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I wuz comm' 'cross de bridge des now, an' Brer John Henry seed me wid de bag slung onter my back, an' de jug in it, an' he ups an' sez, sezee:

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**Who acts:** I, me, git, ' · **What happens:** wuz, wi, sling, up, say · **To what, where:** cross, de bag, ups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, me, git, '), 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:pg2306:60:21
# text = I wuz comm' 'cross de bridge des now, an' Brer John Henry seed me wid de bag slung onter my back, an' de jug in it, an' he ups an' sez, sezee:
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	comm	comm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	des	des	X	FW	_	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	slung	sling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
23	onter	onter	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** | present | I | comm's cross and de bridge |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wi** | past | me | de bag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sling** | participle | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onter my back | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **up** |  | git |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a ' | a ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent up=Topic |

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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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