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title: Now den, le's des call 'im Mr. Man en let 'im go at dat." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Now den, le's des call 'im Mr. Man en let 'im go at dat." Who acts: des call, im Man en, le. 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 17

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Now den, le's des call 'im Mr. Man en let 'im go at dat."

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**Who acts:** des call, im Man en, le · **What happens:** en, let, go, call · **To what, where:** dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (des call, im Man en, le), 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:pg2306:32:17
# text = Now den, le's des call 'im Mr. Man en let 'im go at dat."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	im	im	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **en** |  | le's des call |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | past | im Man en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | im Man en *not said here* |  |  | dat |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at dat=Location |
| 4 | **call** |  | le |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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