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title: "Who dat chunkin' dem chickens dis mawnin? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Who dat chunkin' dem chickens dis mawnin? Who acts: dem chickens. 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 4

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"Who dat chunkin' dem chickens dis mawnin?

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**Who acts:** dem chickens · **What happens:** dat, dis · **To what, where:** chunkin, mawnin

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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 (dem chickens), 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:pg2306:10:4
# text = "Who dat chunkin' dem chickens dis mawnin?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	chunkin	chunkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dis	dis	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	appos	_	_
9	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** *in a quote* | present |  | chunkin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dis** *in a quote* | infinitive | dem chickens | mawnin |  |  |  |  | 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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