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title: Long 'bout den de wedder wuz fetchin' de nat'al sperrits er turkenti… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Long 'bout den de wedder wuz fetchin' de nat'al sperrits er turkentime outen de pine-trees an' de groun' wuz fa'rly smokin' wid de hotness. Who acts: turkentime outen. 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 56

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Long 'bout den de wedder wuz fetchin' de nat'al sperrits er turkentime outen de pine-trees an' de groun' wuz fa'rly smokin' wid de hotness.

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**Who acts:** turkentime outen · **What happens:** tree · **To what, where:** groun wuz

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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 (turkentime outen), 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:pg2306:60:56
# text = Long 'bout den de wedder wuz fetchin' de nat'al sperrits er turkentime outen de pine-trees an' de groun' wuz fa'rly smokin' wid de hotness.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	wedder	wed	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fetchin	fetchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	_
11	nat'al	nat'al	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sperrits	sperrit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
14	turkentime	turkentime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	outen	outen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	acl:relcl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
25	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	fa'rly	fa'rly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	smokin	smokin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	de	de	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hotness	hotness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tree** |  | turkentime outen | a groun wuz  smokin wid de hotness |  |  |  |  | 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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