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title: "'Oh, no,' sezee, 'I wuz des lookin' at dere p'ints.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Oh, no,' sezee, 'I wuz des lookin' at dere p'ints.' Who acts: agricultural editor. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 63

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"'Oh, no,' sezee, 'I wuz des lookin' at dere p'ints.'

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**Who acts:** agricultural editor · **What happens:** wuz · **To what, where:** lookin, dere p'ints

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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 (agricultural editor), 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:pg2306:60:63
# text = "'Oh, no,' sezee, 'I wuz des lookin' at dere p'ints.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	p'ints	p'int	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | the agricultural editor *= editor* | des lookin |  | dere p'ints |  |  | 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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