--- title: Well, den, w'en de man comes long, w'ich Miss Sally say he will, you… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Well, den, w'en de man comes long, w'ich Miss Sally say he will, you des gotter go up dar, pick out yo' wedder an' dere'll be a clock sot fer ter suit yo' case, an' w'en you git home, dere'll be yo' wedder a settin' out in de yard waitin' fer you. Who acts: den man, Miss, you, dere. A sentence of «U --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XIX. As a Weather Prophet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/) / 19 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 19 Well, den, w'en de man comes long, w'ich Miss Sally say he will, you des gotter go up dar, pick out yo' wedder an' dere'll be a clock sot fer ter suit yo' case, an' w'en you git home, dere'll be yo' wedder a settin' out in de yard waitin' fer you. **Who acts:** den man, Miss, you, dere · **What happens:** come, say, go up, pick out, be, suit · **To what, where:** dar, wedder sot fer ter, yo case, yo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (den man, Miss, you, dere), 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:pg2306:65:19 # text = Well, den, w'en de man comes long, w'ich Miss Sally say he will, you des gotter go up dar, pick out yo' wedder an' dere'll be a clock sot fer ter suit yo' case, an' w'en you git home, dere'll be yo' wedder a settin' out in de yard waitin' fer you. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 3 conj _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 w'ich w'ich NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gotter gotter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 go go VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 wedder wed ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 dere dere NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 sot sot NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 suit suit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 41 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 50 home home ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 dere dere NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 55 cop _ _ 55 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 57 wedder wed ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 59 amod _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 settin settin NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 59 punct _ _ 61 out out ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 62 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 64 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ _ 65 waitin waitin NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ _ 67 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 conj _ _ 68 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | den man | | | | | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Miss w'ich | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go up** | infinitive | you | dar | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **pick out** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | future | a dere | a wedder sot fer ter | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **suit** | present | | yo case | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **git** | | you | | | | | home *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | future | dere | yo | | | | a wedder settin and de yard waitin and fer *nmod* | tree rules | | 9 | **fer** | | you | | | | | | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/20/) - ↑ back to [XIX. 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