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title: "Hit wuz sorter like dis, boss. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit wuz sorter like dis, boss. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 6

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"Hit wuz sorter like dis, boss.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hit · **To what, where:** wuz sorter

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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 (you), 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:pg2306:61:6
# text = "Hit wuz sorter like dis, boss.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | wuz sorter |  |  |  | like dis | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sorter=Co-Theme |

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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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