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title: Dey keep on talkin', dey did, twel bimeby dey gotter 'sputin' 'bout… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey keep on talkin', dey did, twel bimeby dey gotter 'sputin' 'bout w'ich wuz de swif'es'. Who acts: Dey, dey gotter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 10

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Dey keep on talkin', dey did, twel bimeby dey gotter 'sputin' 'bout w'ich wuz de swif'es'.

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**Who acts:** Dey, dey gotter · **What happens:** keep, do, swif'e · **To what, where:** talkin dey

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, dey gotter), 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:pg2306:21:10
# text = Dey keep on talkin', dey did, twel bimeby dey gotter 'sputin' 'bout w'ich wuz de swif'es'.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	talkin	talkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	',	',	PART	POS	_	4	dep	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gotter	gotter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sputin	sputin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	swif'es	swif'e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Dey *not said here* |  |  | talkin dey |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swif'e** |  | dey gotter |  |  |  |  |  | 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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