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title: Dey goes 'long wid der han's en der mouf open, en w'at one don't ket… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey goes 'long wid der han's en der mouf open, en w'at one don't ketch de tother one do." Who acts: Dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 25

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Dey goes 'long wid der han's en der mouf open, en w'at one don't ketch de tother one do."

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**Who acts:** Dey · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** long wid

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:30:25
# text = Dey goes 'long wid der han's en der mouf open, en w'at one don't ketch de tother one do."
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	de	de	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tother	tother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Dey | long wid |  |  |  | der han's en and der mouf and en w'at *obl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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