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title: W'en cows don't git milk't, der bag swells, en you k'n hear um a moa… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en cows don't git milk't, der bag swells, en you k'n hear um a moanin' en a beller'n des like dey wuz gittin' hurtid. Who acts: der bag, en. 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 p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 39

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W'en cows don't git milk't, der bag swells, en you k'n hear um a moanin' en a beller'n des like dey wuz gittin' hurtid.

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**Who acts:** der bag, en · **What happens:** swell, hear · **To what, where:** git milk't, um

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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 (der bag, en), 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:pg2306:12:39
# text = W'en cows don't git milk't, der bag swells, en you k'n hear um a moanin' en a beller'n des like dey wuz gittin' hurtid.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	milk't	milk't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	k'n	k'n	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	moanin	moanin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	beller'n	beller'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	hurtid	hurtid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | present | der bag | git milk't *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient milk't=Extent |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive | en | um |  |  |  |  | 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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