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title: An', sho' 'nuff, yer he come agin, an' dis time he rub a piece er wa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: An', sho' 'nuff, yer he come agin, an' dis time he rub a piece er watermillion rime under my lef' year." Who acts: yer, sho. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 25

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An', sho' 'nuff, yer he come agin, an' dis time he rub a piece er watermillion rime under my lef' year."

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**Who acts:** yer, sho · **What happens:** come, rub · **To what, where:** agin, piece er

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yer, sho), 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:pg2306:67:25
# text = An', sho' 'nuff, yer he come agin, an' dis time he rub a piece er watermillion rime under my lef' year."
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rub	rub	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	watermillion	watermillion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	rime	rime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | yer | agin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agin=Theme |
| 2 | **rub** | present | sho | a piece er |  |  |  | watermillion rime *obl:unmarked* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent er=Theme |

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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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