--- title: "An' w'at's mo'," continued the old man, scorning to notice the insi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "An' w'at's mo'," continued the old man, scorning to notice the insinuation, "dough I year Miss Sally w'isslin', an' de peckerwoods a chatterin', I ain't seein' none er deze yer loafin' niggers fixin' up fer ter 'migrate. Who acts: mo, yer ner dar, none, de peckerwoods. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/44/) [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/) / 44 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 44 "An' w'at's mo'," continued the old man, scorning to notice the insinuation, "dough I year Miss Sally w'isslin', an' de peckerwoods a chatterin', I ain't seein' none er deze yer loafin' niggers fixin' up fer ter 'migrate. **Who acts:** mo, yer ner dar, none, de peckerwoods · **What happens:** continue, scorn, notice, w'isslin, not be, ter · **To what, where:** old man, dough, insinuation, seein, Miss Sally w'isslin 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 (mo, yer ner dar, none, de peckerwoods), 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:pg2306:60:44 # text = "An' w'at's mo'," continued the old man, scorning to notice the insinuation, "dough I year Miss Sally w'isslin', an' de peckerwoods a chatterin', I ain't seein' none er deze yer loafin' niggers fixin' up fer ter 'migrate. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 scorning scorn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 insinuation insinuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 dough dough NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 w'isslin w'isslin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ', ', PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 peckerwoods peckerwood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 chatterin chatterin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ', ', PART POS _ 33 dep _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 seein seein NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 51 nsubj _ _ 41 er er X GW _ 51 nsubj _ _ 42 deze deze X NN _ 41 goeswith _ _ 43 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 loafin loafin NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 niggers nigger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 compound _ _ 47 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 up up ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 51 amod _ _ 51 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 52 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 migrate migrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | a w'at's mo | the old man | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 2 | **scorn** | gerund | a w'at's mo *not said here* | dough | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **notice** | to-infinitive | a w'at's mo *not said here* | the insinuation | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer insinuation=Stimulus | | 4 | **w'isslin** *in a quote* | | yer ner dar *= dar* | dough *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | yer ner dar *= dar* | seein | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ter** *in a quote* | | none | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **migrate** *in a quote* | present | a de peckerwoods and a chatterin | Miss Sally w'isslin *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/45/) - ↑ back to [XIV. 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