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title: W'en a man go ter see dead fokes, dead fokes allers raises up der be… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en a man go ter see dead fokes, dead fokes allers raises up der behime leg en hollers, wahoo!' sezee. Who acts: W'en, dead fokes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 53

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W'en a man go ter see dead fokes, dead fokes allers raises up der behime leg en hollers, wahoo!' sezee.

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**Who acts:** W'en, dead fokes · **What happens:** go, see, raise up · **To what, where:** ter, 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, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en, dead fokes), 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:pg2306:14:53
# text = W'en a man go ter see dead fokes, dead fokes allers raises up der behime leg en hollers, wahoo!' sezee.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
5	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	allers	aller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
16	behime	behime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hollers	holler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
24	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	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 | **go** | infinitive | W'en *not said here* | ter |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | W'en |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **raise up** | present | dead fokes and fokes allers | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sezee=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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