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title: Hit was tech en go wid um, too, mon, en w'en dey make up der mines w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit was tech en go wid um, too, mon, en w'en dey make up der mines w'at hatter be done, 'twant mo'n menshun'd 'fo, hit wuz done. Who acts: Hit, mon, twant mo'n menshun. 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, w
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 3

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Hit was tech en go wid um, too, mon, en w'en dey make up der mines w'at hatter be done, 'twant mo'n menshun'd 'fo, hit wuz done.

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**Who acts:** Hit, mon, twant mo'n menshun · **What happens:** be, make up, do, ', hit · **To what, where:** der mines, 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 (Hit, mon, twant mo'n menshun), 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:pg2306:8:3
# text = Hit was tech en go wid um, too, mon, en w'en dey make up der mines w'at hatter be done, 'twant mo'n menshun'd 'fo, hit wuz done.
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	tech	tech	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	twant	twant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	menshun	menshun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	'	'	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	fo	fo	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | past | Hit |  |  |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | present | mon and en w'en dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive · passive |  | der mines |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **'** | would | twant mo'n menshun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | infinitive | twant mo'n menshun *not said here* | wuz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | participle | twant mo'n menshun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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