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title: Dey er marked--dat's w'at dey is--dey er marked." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey er marked--dat's w'at dey is--dey er marked." Who acts: w'at dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 58

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Dey er marked--dat's w'at dey is--dey er marked."

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**Who acts:** w'at dey · **What happens:** mark, be · **To what, where:** Dey er

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'at dey), 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:pg2306:20:58
# text = Dey er marked--dat's w'at dey is--dey er marked."
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | participle |  | Dey er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | dat's w'at dey | dey er |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  | dey er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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