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title: Co'se w'en dat creetur put his foot down, w'atsumever's under dar wu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Co'se w'en dat creetur put his foot down, w'atsumever's under dar wuz boun' fer ter be squshed, en dey wa'n't nuff er dat Crawfish lef' fer ter tell dat he'd bin dar. Who acts: Co'se dat creetur, w'atsumever, dar wuz boun, nuff. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 13

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Co'se w'en dat creetur put his foot down, w'atsumever's under dar wuz boun' fer ter be squshed, en dey wa'n't nuff er dat Crawfish lef' fer ter tell dat he'd bin dar.

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**Who acts:** Co'se dat creetur, w'atsumever, dar wuz boun, nuff, dat Crawfish · **What happens:** put down, be, sqush, er, tell, bin · **To what, where:** foot, dar wuz boun, fer ter, en dey, dat, dar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Co'se dat creetur, w'atsumever, dar wuz boun, nuff), 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:pg2306:8:13
# text = Co'se w'en dat creetur put his foot down, w'atsumever's under dar wuz boun' fer ter be squshed, en dey wa'n't nuff er dat Crawfish lef' fer ter tell dat he'd bin dar.
1	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	dat	dat	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	creetur	creetur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	w'atsumever	w'atsumever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	squshed	sqush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	wa'	wa'	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Crawfish	crawfish	X	GW	_	34	nsubj	_	_
30	lef	lef	X	NN	_	29	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
35	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | Co'se dat creetur | Elephant's foot |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | present | w'atsumever |  |  | dar wuz boun and en dey |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sqush** | infinitive · passive | dar wuz boun and en dey *not said here* | fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **er** | infinitive | nuff | en dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | dat Crawfish | dat |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bin** | would | nuff | dar |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dar=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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