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title: Who dat knockin' out fokes's eyes wid dat Yallerbammer sling des 'fo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Who dat knockin' out fokes's eyes wid dat Yallerbammer sling des 'fo' dinner? 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 5

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Who dat knockin' out fokes's eyes wid dat Yallerbammer sling des 'fo' dinner?

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**What happens:** dat out · **To what, where:** knockin

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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: 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:pg2306:10:5
# text = Who dat knockin' out fokes's eyes wid dat Yallerbammer sling des 'fo' dinner?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	knockin	knockin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dat	dat	X	GW	_	2	obj	_	_
11	Yallerbammer	Yallerbammer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat out** | present |  | knockin |  |  |  |  | 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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