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title: De ole uns milk't en de young uns milk't, en den w'en dey done got n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole uns milk't en de young uns milk't, en den w'en dey done got nuff, Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee: Who acts: De uns milk't, milk't. 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 pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 33

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De ole uns milk't en de young uns milk't, en den w'en dey done got nuff, Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** De uns milk't, milk't · **What happens:** do, get, say · **To what, where:** dey, nuff, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (De uns milk't, milk't), 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:pg2306:12:33
# text = De ole uns milk't en de young uns milk't, en den w'en dey done got nuff, Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	uns	un	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	milk't	milk't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	uns	un	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
9	milk't	milk't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	up'n	up'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | De uns milk't | nuff |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nuff=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | milk't | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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