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title: Dish yer man mout a had a name, en den ag'in he moutn't. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dish yer man mout a had a name, en den ag'in he moutn't. Who acts: you, man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 13

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Dish yer man mout a had a name, en den ag'in he moutn't.

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** dish, have, not mout · **To what, where:** man, name

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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:pg2306:32:13
# text = Dish yer man mout a had a name, en den ag'in he moutn't.
1	Dish	dish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	mout	mout	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ag'in	ag'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dish** | imperative | you *not said here* | yer's man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | you *not said here* | a name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **mout** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | 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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