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title: "W'at he gwine do 'roun' yer?" asked one. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'at he gwine do 'roun' yer?" asked one. Who acts: dat, W'at gwine. 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 9

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"W'at he gwine do 'roun' yer?" asked one.

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**Who acts:** dat, W'at gwine · **What happens:** gwine, do, ask · **To what, where:** roun, 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, W'at gwine), 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:pg2306:65:9
# text = "W'at he gwine do 'roun' yer?" asked one.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine** *in a quote* |  | dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | W'at gwine | roun |  |  |  | y *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | W'at gwine *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |

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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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