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title: "Bimeby, w'iles de Nunicorn wuz 'sputin' wid de Lion, en w'ile de Hy… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bimeby, w'iles de Nunicorn wuz 'sputin' wid de Lion, en w'ile de Hyener wuz a laughin' ter hisse'f, de Elephant squshed anudder one er de Crawfishes, en a little mo'n he'd er ruint de Mud Turkle. Who acts: en w'ile, Elephant. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler H
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 16

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"Bimeby, w'iles de Nunicorn wuz 'sputin' wid de Lion, en w'ile de Hyener wuz a laughin' ter hisse'f, de Elephant squshed anudder one er de Crawfishes, en a little mo'n he'd er ruint de Mud Turkle.

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**Who acts:** en w'ile, Elephant · **What happens:** wuz, sqush · **To what, where:** ter hisse'f, anudder

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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 w'ile, 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:pg2306:8:16
# text = "Bimeby, w'iles de Nunicorn wuz 'sputin' wid de Lion, en w'ile de Hyener wuz a laughin' ter hisse'f, de Elephant squshed anudder one er de Crawfishes, en a little mo'n he'd er ruint de Mud Turkle.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
6	Nunicorn	Nunicorn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sputin	sputin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	Hyener	Hyener	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	laughin	laughin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	de	de	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	squshed	sqush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
29	anudder	anudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Crawfishes	crawfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
42	ruint	ruint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:desc	_	_
43	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	flat:foreign	_	_
44	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	Turkle	Turkle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | en w'ile | a laughin's ter hisse'f |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sqush** *in a quote* | past | Elephant | anudder |  |  |  |  | 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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