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title: Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come te… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come ter see um, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 58

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Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come ter see um, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

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**Who acts:** Dead fokes · **What happens:** hist, come, see, say · **To what, where:** der hollers wahoo, um, Brer · **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 (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:pg2306:14:58
# text = Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come ter see um, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hists	hist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
5	behime	behime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hollers	holler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hist** | present | Dead fokes | der hollers wahoo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  | um |  |  |  | ter *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dead fokes *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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