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title: Leas'ways I galloped up ter de back po'ch, an' dar sot de watermilli… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Leas'ways I galloped up ter de back po'ch, an' dar sot de watermillions dez ez natchul ez ef dey'd er bin raised on de ole Spivey place in Putmon County. Who acts: Leas'ways, ter, ez natchul ez ef dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Wa
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 10

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Leas'ways I galloped up ter de back po'ch, an' dar sot de watermillions dez ez natchul ez ef dey'd er bin raised on de ole Spivey place in Putmon County.

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**Who acts:** Leas'ways, ter, ez natchul ez ef dey · **What happens:** gallop up, po'ch, er, raise · **To what, where:** bin, ole Spivey place

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leas'ways, ter, ez natchul ez ef dey), 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:pg2306:61:10
# text = Leas'ways I galloped up ter de back po'ch, an' dar sot de watermillions dez ez natchul ez ef dey'd er bin raised on de ole Spivey place in Putmon County.
1	Leas'ways	leas'way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	po'ch	po'ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat	_	_
15	watermillions	watermillion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	dez	dez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	conj	_	_
17	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	natchul	natchul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	de	de	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Spivey	Spivey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Putmon	Putmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop up** | past | Leas'ways |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **po'ch** |  | ter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **er** | would | ez natchul ez ef dey | bin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **raise** | participle |  | bin *not said here* |  | ole Spivey place in Putmon County |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on place=Destination |

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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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