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title: De Lion, he wuz dar, kase he wuz de king, en he hatter be der. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De Lion, he wuz dar, kase he wuz de king, en he hatter be der. Who acts: Lion, de king. 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 5

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De Lion, he wuz dar, kase he wuz de king, en he hatter be der.

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**Who acts:** Lion, de king · **What happens:** dar, be · **To what, where:** kase 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 (Lion, de king), 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:pg2306:8:5
# text = De Lion, he wuz dar, kase he wuz de king, en he hatter be der.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	kase	kase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dar** |  | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | de king and en | kase wuz *not said here* |  |  |  | d *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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