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title: Tain't put down in de tale, but I speck he cusst en r'ar'd 'roun' co… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Tain't put down in de tale, but I speck he cusst en r'ar'd 'roun' considerbul. Who acts: I, dey, en r'ar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 28

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Tain't put down in de tale, but I speck he cusst en r'ar'd 'roun' considerbul.

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**Who acts:** I, dey, en r'ar · **What happens:** not put down, speck, cusst, considerbul · **To what, where:** de tale, cusst

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dey, en r'ar), 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:pg2306:22:28
# text = Tain't put down in de tale, but I speck he cusst en r'ar'd 'roun' considerbul.
1	Tai	tai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cusst	cusst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	r'ar	r'ar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	considerbul	considerbul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put down** |  |  |  |  | de tale |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in tale=Destination |
| 2 | **speck** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cusst** |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **considerbul** | would | en r'ar | cusst *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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