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title: Bimeby, w'ile dey wuz 'sputin' 'longer one er nudder, de Elephant tr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, w'ile dey wuz 'sputin' 'longer one er nudder, de Elephant trompled on one er de Crawfishes. Who acts: Elephant. 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 eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 12

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Bimeby, w'ile dey wuz 'sputin' 'longer one er nudder, de Elephant trompled on one er de Crawfishes.

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**Who acts:** Elephant · **What happens:** trompl · **To what, where:** de Crawfishes

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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 (Elephant), 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:pg2306:8:12
# text = Bimeby, w'ile dey wuz 'sputin' 'longer one er nudder, de Elephant trompled on one er de Crawfishes.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	w'ile	w'ile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	sputin	sputin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	de	de	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	trompled	trompl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Crawfishes	crawfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trompl** | past | Elephant |  |  | de Crawfishes |  |  | 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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