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title: Well, dey 'lected dat dey hatter hol' er 'sembly fer ter sorter stra… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, dey 'lected dat dey hatter hol' er 'sembly fer ter sorter straighten out marters en hear de complaints, en w'en de day come dey wuz on han'. Who acts: marters, complaints. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 4

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Well, dey 'lected dat dey hatter hol' er 'sembly fer ter sorter straighten out marters en hear de complaints, en w'en de day come dey wuz on han'.

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**Who acts:** marters, complaints · **What happens:** lect, straighten out, hear, come · **To what, where:** dey, dey wuz, han

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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 (marters, complaints), 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:pg2306:8:4
# text = Well, dey 'lected dat dey hatter hol' er 'sembly fer ter sorter straighten out marters en hear de complaints, en w'en de day come dey wuz on han'.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	lected	lect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	sembly	sembly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	marters	marter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	complaints	complaint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
30	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lect** | participle · passive |  | dey |  |  |  | dat hatter hol and er and fer ter sorter | tree rules |
| 2 | **straighten out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hear** | present | marters |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | present | complaints | dey wuz |  | han |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wuz=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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