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title: "'I'll des git one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go; one 'simmon mo' en de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I'll des git one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go; one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go.' Who acts: little boy. 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 39

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"'I'll des git one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go; one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go.'

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**Who acts:** little boy · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** en den

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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 (little boy), 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:pg2306:30:39
# text = "'I'll des git one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go; one 'simmon mo' en den I'll go.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	simmon	simmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	simmon	simmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the little boy *= boy* | en den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location den=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the little boy *= boy* | en den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location den=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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