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title: We all speunces dat p'overdence w'at lifts us up fum one place an' s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: We all speunces dat p'overdence w'at lifts us up fum one place an' sets us down in de udder. Who acts: We, speunces. 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 4

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We all speunces dat p'overdence w'at lifts us up fum one place an' sets us down in de udder.

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**Who acts:** We, speunces · **What happens:** speunce, lift up, fum, set down · **To what, where:** us, one place, de udder

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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 (We, speunces), 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:pg2306:65:4
# text = We all speunces dat p'overdence w'at lifts us up fum one place an' sets us down in de udder.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	speunces	speunce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	dat	dat	X	GW	_	3	conj	_	_
5	p'overdence	p'overdence	X	NN	_	4	goeswith	_	_
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speunce** |  | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift up** | present | all speunces | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fum** | infinitive | all speunces *not said here* | one place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set down** | present | all speunces *not said here* | us |  | de udder |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in udder=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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