--- title: "I year Miss Sally readin' dis mawnin," continued the old man, "dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I year Miss Sally readin' dis mawnin," continued the old man, "dat a man wuz comin' down yer fer ter take keer er de wedder-- wunner deze yer Buro mens w'at goes 'roun' a puttin' up an' pullin' down." Who acts: old man, year Sally readin, wuz comin, dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and Hi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/8/) [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/) / 8 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 8 "I year Miss Sally readin' dis mawnin," continued the old man, "dat a man wuz comin' down yer fer ter take keer er de wedder-- wunner deze yer Buro mens w'at goes 'roun' a puttin' up an' pullin' down." **Who acts:** old man, year Sally readin, wuz comin, dat · **What happens:** year, continue, take, go · **To what, where:** old man, er de wedder · **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 (old man, year Sally readin, wuz comin, dat), 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:pg2306:65:8 # text = "I year Miss Sally readin' dis mawnin," continued the old man, "dat a man wuz comin' down yer fer ter take keer er de wedder-- wunner deze yer Buro mens w'at goes 'roun' a puttin' up an' pullin' down." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 readin readin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 mawnin mawnin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 comin comin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ _ 29 keer keer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 wedder wedder NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 Buro Buro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 mens men NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 compound _ _ 39 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 puttin puttin NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 up up ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 pullin pullin NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 down down ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **year** *in a quote* | | the old man *= man* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **continue** | past | year Sally readin | the old man | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | a wuz comin | er de wedder | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedder=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | dat | | | | | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/9/) - ↑ back to [XIX. 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