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title: She wuz in de tale, Miss Meadows en de gals wuz, en de tale I give y… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: She wuz in de tale, Miss Meadows en de gals wuz, en de tale I give you like hi't wer' gun ter me. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 18

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She wuz in de tale, Miss Meadows en de gals wuz, en de tale I give you like hi't wer' gun ter me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** de tale, you

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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 (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:pg2306:9:18
# text = She wuz in de tale, Miss Meadows en de gals wuz, en de tale I give you like hi't wer' gun ter me.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	compound	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
11	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	hi't	hi't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I | de tale *not said here* | you |  |  | like hi't wer and gun ter me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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