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title: He moughter stayed sorter close twel de pitch rub off'n his ha'r, bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He moughter stayed sorter close twel de pitch rub off'n his ha'r, but tweren't menny days 'fo' he wuz lopin' up en down de neighborhood same ez ever, en I dunno ef he weren't mo' sassier dan befo'. Who acts: dat, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 12

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He moughter stayed sorter close twel de pitch rub off'n his ha'r, but tweren't menny days 'fo' he wuz lopin' up en down de neighborhood same ez ever, en I dunno ef he weren't mo' sassier dan befo'.

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**Who acts:** dat, I · **What happens:** stay, dunno, not be · **To what, where:** close twel, en, mo

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, I), 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:pg2306:9:12
# text = He moughter stayed sorter close twel de pitch rub off'n his ha'r, but tweren't menny days 'fo' he wuz lopin' up en down de neighborhood same ez ever, en I dunno ef he weren't mo' sassier dan befo'.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	moughter	moughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	off'n	off'n	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	twere	twere	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	menny	menny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	lopin	lopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
29	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ez	ez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	dunno	dunno	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	sassier	sassy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	amod	_	_
45	dan	dan	X	FW	_	46	compound	_	_
46	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | dat | close twel |  |  | ever | up en; same ez *obl:unmarked*; down, sorter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dunno** | present | I | en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | dat | mo |  |  |  |  | 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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