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title: I lay I'll give Marse John one er dese yer 'sprize parties." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I lay I'll give Marse John one er dese yer 'sprize parties." Who acts: 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 every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 61

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I lay I'll give Marse John one er dese yer 'sprize parties."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** lay, give · **To what, where:** Marse

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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 (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:pg2306:10:61
# text = I lay I'll give Marse John one er dese yer 'sprize parties."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	Marse	Marse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dese	dese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	appos	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	sprize	sprize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | future | I | Marse and sprize parties |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marse=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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