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title: "Dat's de way marters stan' twel de day er de race, en on dat day, o… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat's de way marters stan' twel de day er de race, en on dat day, ole Brer Tarrypin, en his ole 'oman, en his th'ee chilluns, dey got up 'fo' sun-up, en went ter de place. Who acts: dey, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 23

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"Dat's de way marters stan' twel de day er de race, en on dat day, ole Brer Tarrypin, en his ole 'oman, en his th'ee chilluns, dey got up 'fo' sun-up, en went ter de place.

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**Who acts:** dey, en · **What happens:** get up, go · **To what, where:** th'ee chilluns, de place

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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, en), 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:pg2306:21:23
# text = "Dat's de way marters stan' twel de day er de race, en on dat day, ole Brer Tarrypin, en his ole 'oman, en his th'ee chilluns, dey got up 'fo' sun-up, en went ter de place.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	marters	marter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	er	er	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
23	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	th'ee	th'ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	44	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
48	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** *in a quote* | past | dey | Ole's th'ee chilluns *not said here* |  |  |  | for sun up | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chillun=Theme for up=Source |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | en | de place |  |  |  | ter *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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