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title: But, bless grashus! sech a racket wuz a gwine on dat nobody ain't he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But, bless grashus! sech a racket wuz a gwine on dat nobody ain't hear it, 'ceppin' maybe de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en dere enfloons wuz pow'ful lackin'. Who acts: bless grashus, gwine. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Delug
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 15

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But, bless grashus! sech a racket wuz a gwine on dat nobody ain't hear it, 'ceppin' maybe de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en dere enfloons wuz pow'ful lackin'.

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**Who acts:** bless grashus, gwine · **What happens:** sech, not be · **To what, where:** racket wuz

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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 (bless grashus, gwine), 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:pg2306:8:15
# text = But, bless grashus! sech a racket wuz a gwine on dat nobody ain't hear it, 'ceppin' maybe de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en dere enfloons wuz pow'ful lackin'.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	bless	bless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grashus	grashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sech	sech	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	Turkle	Turkle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
28	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Lizzud	Lizzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	enfloons	enfloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	pow'ful	pow'ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	lackin	lackin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sech** | infinitive | bless grashus | a racket wuz |  |  |  | de Mud Turkle en and dere enfloons  wuz pow'ful lackin *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | a gwine on dat |  |  |  |  | hear *property* | 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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