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title: Deze," he continued, dividing the cakes into two equal parts--"dese… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Deze," he continued, dividing the cakes into two equal parts--"dese I'll tackle now, en dese I'll lay by fer Sunday. Who acts: Deze, I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 14

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Deze," he continued, dividing the cakes into two equal parts--"dese I'll tackle now, en dese I'll lay by fer Sunday.

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**Who acts:** Deze, I · **What happens:** continue, divide, tackle, lay · **To what, where:** cakes, two equal parts, dese, en dese

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deze, 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:pg2306:10:14
# text = Deze," he continued, dividing the cakes into two equal parts--"dese I'll tackle now, en dese I'll lay by fer Sunday.
1	Deze	Deze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	dese	dese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tackle	tackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dese	dese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Deze |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** *in a quote* | gerund | Deze *not said here* | the cakes |  | two equal parts |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |
| 3 | **tackle** | future | I | dese and en dese *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dese=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | future | I | en dese *not said here* |  |  | sunday |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dese=Result |

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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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