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title: Dey went inter fahmin', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey went inter fahmin', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey kep' sto', en had der camp-meetin' times en der bobbycues w'en de wedder wuz 'greeble." Who acts: Dey, I, troof wuz ter, sto en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 3

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Dey went inter fahmin', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey kep' sto', en had der camp-meetin' times en der bobbycues w'en de wedder wuz 'greeble."

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**Who acts:** Dey, I, troof wuz ter, sto en · **What happens:** go, speck, come out, kep, have · **To what, where:** fahmin en, ef, dey, der camp meetin

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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, I, troof wuz ter, sto 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:pg2306:24:3
# text = Dey went inter fahmin', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey kep' sto', en had der camp-meetin' times en der bobbycues w'en de wedder wuz 'greeble."
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	fahmin	fahmin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	',	',	PART	POS	_	4	dep	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	troof	troof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	kep	kep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sto	sto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	',	',	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
25	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	meetin	meetin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	compound	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	bobbycues	bobbycue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	amod	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat	_	_
35	wedder	wed	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
36	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	greeble	greeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Dey | fahmin en |  |  |  | int *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speck** | present | I | ef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** | present | troof wuz ter |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **kep** | present | troof wuz ter *not said here* | dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | sto en | der camp meetin and times en and der bobbycues and w'en wedder wuz |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meetin=Patient |

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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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