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title: But now dat I got you, I'll des 'bout settle wid you fer de ole en d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But now dat I got you, I'll des 'bout settle wid you fer de ole en de new.' Who acts: I. 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 24

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But now dat I got you, I'll des 'bout settle wid you fer de ole en de new.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, settle · **To what, where:** you, dat

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:32:24
# text = But now dat I got you, I'll des 'bout settle wid you fer de ole en de new.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	dat	dat	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	des	de	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	settle	settle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
16	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
18	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **settle** | future | I | dat |  |  |  |  | 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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