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title: En dey kep der cloze clean, en dey ain't had no smut on der nose nud… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En dey kep der cloze clean, en dey ain't had no smut on der nose nudder." Who acts: En dey, der cloze. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 5

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En dey kep der cloze clean, en dey ain't had no smut on der nose nudder."

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**Who acts:** En dey, der cloze · **What happens:** kep, not have · **To what, where:** smut, der nose nudder

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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 (En dey, der cloze), 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:pg2306:25:5
# text = En dey kep der cloze clean, en dey ain't had no smut on der nose nudder."
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	smut	smut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
17	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kep** | infinitive | En dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past | der cloze | no smut |  | der nose nudder |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smut=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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