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title: "Den dey all laff 'gin, en Brer B'ar, he ups en sez, sezee: 'We ain'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den dey all laff 'gin, en Brer B'ar, he ups en sez, sezee: 'We ain't got no rope,' sezee. Who acts: dey, Den dey, We. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 18

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"Den dey all laff 'gin, en Brer B'ar, he ups en sez, sezee: 'We ain't got no rope,' sezee.

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**Who acts:** dey, Den dey, We · **What happens:** up, say, not get · **To what, where:** sezee, rope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, Den dey, We), 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:pg2306:29:18
# text = "Den dey all laff 'gin, en Brer B'ar, he ups en sez, sezee: 'We ain't got no rope,' sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **up** *in a quote* |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Den dey and en | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* |  | We | no rope |  |  |  | sezee *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=Stimulus |

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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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