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title: Howsomever, dey 'ranged der 'fairs, en splained der bizness. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Howsomever, dey 'ranged der 'fairs, en splained der bizness. Who acts: en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 11

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Howsomever, dey 'ranged der 'fairs, en splained der bizness.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** range, splain · **To what, where:** der bizness

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en), 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:pg2306:8:11
# text = Howsomever, dey 'ranged der 'fairs, en splained der bizness.
1	Howsomever	howsomever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fairs	fair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	splained	splain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	bizness	bizness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **splain** | participle | en *not said here* | der bizness |  |  |  |  | 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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