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title: De little chaps dey got 'roun' de wood, dey did, en dey lif' at it s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De little chaps dey got 'roun' de wood, dey did, en dey lif' at it so hard twel dey could see der own sins, but de wood ain't budge. Who acts: De dey, roun, dey, hard twel dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, wit
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 33

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De little chaps dey got 'roun' de wood, dey did, en dey lif' at it so hard twel dey could see der own sins, but de wood ain't budge.

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**Who acts:** De dey, roun, dey, hard twel dey, de wood · **What happens:** get, wood, do, see, not budge · **To what, where:** roun, de wood, der own sins

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De dey, roun, dey, hard twel 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:pg2306:25:33
# text = De little chaps dey got 'roun' de wood, dey did, en dey lif' at it so hard twel dey could see der own sins, but de wood ain't budge.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chaps	chap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lif	lif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
27	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | De dey |  |  | roun |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wood** |  | roun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | dey | de wood and en dey lif *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Eventuality |
| 4 | **see** | could | hard twel dey | der own sins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sin=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **budge** | infinitive | de wood |  |  |  |  |  | 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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