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title: De crap wuz all gone, en dey want nuthin' dar fer ter show fer it. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De crap wuz all gone, en dey want nuthin' dar fer ter show fer it. Who acts: en dey, nuthin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 14

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De crap wuz all gone, en dey want nuthin' dar fer ter show fer it.

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**Who acts:** en dey, nuthin · **What happens:** want, show · **To what, where:** fer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en dey, nuthin), 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:pg2306:24:14
# text = De crap wuz all gone, en dey want nuthin' dar fer ter show fer it.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | en dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **show** | present | nuthin and fer ter | fer |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fer=Recipient it=Topic |

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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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