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title: Dat's w'at he wuz dar fer, en dat's w'at he done. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat's w'at he wuz dar fer, en dat's w'at he done. Who acts: w'at. 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 29

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Dat's w'at he wuz dar fer, en dat's w'at he done.

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**Who acts:** w'at · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** dat w'at

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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 (w'at), 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:pg2306:8:29
# text = Dat's w'at he wuz dar fer, en dat's w'at he done.
1	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | w'at | dat w'at *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Eventuality |

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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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