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title: In dem days," continued the old man, "de creeturs kyar'd on marters… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: In dem days," continued the old man, "de creeturs kyar'd on marters same ez fokes. Who acts: de. 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 2

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In dem days," continued the old man, "de creeturs kyar'd on marters same ez fokes.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** continue, creetur, ' · **To what, where:** old man, kyar, marters

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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 (de), 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:pg2306:24:2
# text = In dem days," continued the old man, "de creeturs kyar'd on marters same ez fokes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
13	creeturs	creetur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	kyar	kyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	marters	marter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ez	ez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  | day |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **creetur** | present | de | kyar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **'** | participle |  | kyar *not said here* |  | marters and same ez fokes |  |  | 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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