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title: Fus' it wuz me up an' den de ole 'oman, an' it kep' us pow'ful warm,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fus' it wuz me up an' den de ole 'oman, an' it kep' us pow'ful warm, too, dat kinder exercise. Who acts: dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 19

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Fus' it wuz me up an' den de ole 'oman, an' it kep' us pow'ful warm, too, dat kinder exercise.

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**Who acts:** dat · **What happens:** wuz up, kep · **To what, where:** me, us

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. 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:pg2306:66:19
# text = Fus' it wuz me up an' den de ole 'oman, an' it kep' us pow'ful warm, too, dat kinder exercise.
1	Fus	Fus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kep	kep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	pow'ful	pow'ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
27	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz up** | present | dat | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kep** | present | dat | us |  |  |  |  | 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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