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title: "He gwine dish em up," suggested one of the older ones, "like man di… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "He gwine dish em up," suggested one of the older ones, "like man dish out sugar. Who acts: dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 12

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"He gwine dish em up," suggested one of the older ones, "like man dish out sugar.

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**Who acts:** dat · **What happens:** em up, suggest out · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat), 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:pg2306:65:12
# text = "He gwine dish em up," suggested one of the older ones, "like man dish out sugar.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	em	em	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **em up** *in a quote* | present | dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suggest out** *speech: suggest* | past |  | one of the older ones |  |  |  | man dish *obl* | 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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