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title: "Dey riz," continued Uncle Remus, "en w'en dey lit, dey lit in de to… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dey riz," continued Uncle Remus, "en w'en dey lit, dey lit in de top er de highest sorter pine, en de pine w'at dey lit in wuz growin' on er ilun, en de ilun wuz in de middle er de river, wid de deep water runnin' all 'roun'. Who acts: Dey riz, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Say
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 23

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"Dey riz," continued Uncle Remus, "en w'en dey lit, dey lit in de top er de highest sorter pine, en de pine w'at dey lit in wuz growin' on er ilun, en de ilun wuz in de middle er de river, wid de deep water runnin' all 'roun'.

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**Who acts:** Dey riz, dey · **What happens:** continue, lit · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, highest sorter pine, de top er, de pine w'at dey, wuz growin

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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 (Dey riz, dey), 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:pg2306:24:23
# text = "Dey riz," continued Uncle Remus, "en w'en dey lit, dey lit in de top er de highest sorter pine, en de pine w'at dey lit in wuz growin' on er ilun, en de ilun wuz in de middle er de river, wid de deep water runnin' all 'roun'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	riz	riz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lit	lit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
23	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
24	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
29	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	growin	growin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	er	er	X	FW	_	39	compound	_	_
39	ilun	ilun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	compound	_	_
43	ilun	ilun	X	FW	_	44	compound	_	_
44	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
47	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	50	compound	_	_
50	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
53	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	56	compound	_	_
54	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	runnin	runnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	_
58	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	60	det	_	_
59	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Dey riz | Uncle Remus |  |  |  | en dey lit and dey and en *obl* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme |
| 2 | **lit** *in a quote* | participle | dey *not said here* | highest sorter pine |  | de top er |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lit** *in a quote* | participle |  | de pine w'at dey and en and de ilun wuz in de middle er and de river *not said here* |  | wuz growin |  | on er ilun | 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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