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title: De Rhynossyhoss, he wuz dar, en de Elephant, he wuz dar, en de Cammi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De Rhynossyhoss, he wuz dar, en de Elephant, he wuz dar, en de Cammils, en de Cows, en plum' down ter de Crawfishes, dey wuz dar. Who acts: hatter. 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 tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 6

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De Rhynossyhoss, he wuz dar, en de Elephant, he wuz dar, en de Cammils, en de Cows, en plum' down ter de Crawfishes, dey wuz dar.

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**Who acts:** hatter · **What happens:** dar · **To what, where:** Cammils

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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 (hatter), 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:pg2306:8:6
# text = De Rhynossyhoss, he wuz dar, en de Elephant, he wuz dar, en de Cammils, en de Cows, en plum' down ter de Crawfishes, dey wuz dar.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rhynossyhoss	Rhynossyhoss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	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	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	Cammils	Cammil	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	de	de	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Crawfishes	crawfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dar** |  | hatter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dar** |  | hatter | Cammils |  |  |  |  | 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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