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title: Nex' mornin' I hear Miss Sally a laughin', an' singin' an' a w'issli… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Nex' mornin' I hear Miss Sally a laughin', an' singin' an' a w'isslin' des like dey want no watermillions raise in Flurridy. Who acts: I, des, watermillions. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 20

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Nex' mornin' I hear Miss Sally a laughin', an' singin' an' a w'isslin' des like dey want no watermillions raise in Flurridy.

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**Who acts:** I, des, watermillions · **What happens:** hear, want, raise · **To what, where:** Nex mornin, Flurridy

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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 (I, des, watermillions), 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:pg2306:61:20
# text = Nex' mornin' I hear Miss Sally a laughin', an' singin' an' a w'isslin' des like dey want no watermillions raise in Flurridy.
1	Nex	Nex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	laughin	laughin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	singin	singin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	w'isslin	w'isslin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	watermillions	watermillion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Flurridy	Flurridy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I | Nex mornin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | a w'isslin's des like dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **raise** | present | no watermillions |  |  | Flurridy |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in flurridy=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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