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title: Eave-drappers don't hear no good er deyse'f, en de way Brer Fox wuz… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Eave-drappers don't hear no good er deyse'f, en de way Brer Fox wuz 'bused dat day wuz a caution. Who acts: Eave drappers. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 26

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Eave-drappers don't hear no good er deyse'f, en de way Brer Fox wuz 'bused dat day wuz a caution.

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**Who acts:** Eave drappers · **What happens:** not hear, bus · **To what, where:** good er deyse'f, way Brer Fox wuz

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eave drappers), 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:pg2306:13:26
# text = Eave-drappers don't hear no good er deyse'f, en de way Brer Fox wuz 'bused dat day wuz a caution.
1	Eave	eave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	drappers	drapper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	bused	bus	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	caution	caution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | present · do-support | Eave drappers | no good er deyse'f and en  way Brer Fox wuz |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deyse'f=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bus** | participle |  | way Brer Fox wuz *not said here* |  |  | day | wuz a caution | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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