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title: En dey all s'roundid ole Miss Cow, dey did, en you hear me, honey, d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En dey all s'roundid ole Miss Cow, dey did, en you hear me, honey, dey milk't 'er dry. Who acts: all, dey, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 32

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En dey all s'roundid ole Miss Cow, dey did, en you hear me, honey, dey milk't 'er dry.

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**Who acts:** all, dey, you · **What happens:** cow, do, hear · **To what, where:** En dey, s'roundid ole Miss Cow, me

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, dey, you), 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:pg2306:12:32
# text = En dey all s'roundid ole Miss Cow, dey did, en you hear me, honey, dey milk't 'er dry.
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
4	s'roundid	s'roundid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	milk't	milk't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	conj	_	_
23	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cow** |  | all | En dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | dey | s'roundid ole Miss Cow and en and honey and dey milk't *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hear** | present | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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