--- title: Den Miss Sally, she cut me off er slishe--wunner deze yer ongodly sl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Den Miss Sally, she cut me off er slishe--wunner deze yer ongodly slishes, big ez yo' hat, an' I sot down on de steps an' wrop myse'f roun' de whole blessid chunk, 'cep'in' de rime." Who acts: Den, wunner deze, I, er. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, wunner deze, I, er), 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:pg2306:61:11 # text = Den Miss Sally, she cut me off er slishe--wunner deze yer ongodly slishes, big ez yo' hat, an' I sot down on de steps an' wrop myse'f roun' de whole blessid chunk, 'cep'in' de rime." 1 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 er er X GW _ 31 nsubj _ _ 10 slishe slishe X NN _ 9 goeswith _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 15 ongodly ongodly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 slishes slish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 27 nmod _ _ 31 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 wrop wrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 myse'f myse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 41 nsubj _ _ 39 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 blessid blessid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 chunk chunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 cep'in cep'in NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 compound _ _ 47 rime rime NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | past | Den | | me | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality | | 2 | **slish** | present | wunner deze | | | | | ongodly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sot down** | | I | | | de | | down *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **step** | present | er and a sot | a myse'f roun | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location roun=Theme | | 5 | **chunk** | | de | | | | | | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/12/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Florida Watermelon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/61/)