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title: But dish yer man, he in de tale, en w'at we gwine do wid 'im? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But dish yer man, he in de tale, en w'at we gwine do wid 'im? Who acts: we, 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 15

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But dish yer man, he in de tale, en w'at we gwine do wid 'im?

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**Who acts:** we, man · **What happens:** gwine, do · **To what, where:** dish man, de tale

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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 (we, 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:pg2306:32:15
# text = But dish yer man, he in de tale, en w'at we gwine do wid 'im?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | man | yer's dish man |  | de tale |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wid=Eventuality |

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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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