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title: En so you er de man w'at lam me on de head at Miss Meadows's is you? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En so you er de man w'at lam me on de head at Miss Meadows's is you? Who acts: En, de man w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 24

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En so you er de man w'at lam me on de head at Miss Meadows's is you?

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**Who acts:** En, de man w'at · **What happens:** er, lam, be · **To what, where:** me, de head, you

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, de man w'at), 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:pg2306:15:24
# text = En so you er de man w'at lam me on de head at Miss Meadows's is you?
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lam	lam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | present | En |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lam** | infinitive | de man w'at | me |  | de head |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Patient on head=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | de man w'at *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | 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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