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title: Who dat flingin' rocks on top er my house, w'ich a little mo' en one… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Who dat flingin' rocks on top er my house, w'ich a little mo' en one un em would er drap spang on my head?" Who acts: one un. 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 8

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Who dat flingin' rocks on top er my house, w'ich a little mo' en one un em would er drap spang on my head?"

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**Who acts:** one un · **What happens:** dat, drap · **To what, where:** flingin rocks, top, spang, head

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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 (one un), 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:pg2306:10:8
# text = Who dat flingin' rocks on top er my house, w'ich a little mo' en one un em would er drap spang on my head?"
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	flingin	flingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	er	er	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	spang	spang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | present |  | flingin rocks |  | top |  | er my house and w'ich | tree rules |
| 2 | **drap** | would | one un | spang |  | my head |  |  | 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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