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title: Dat's all I knows--des wunner dese yer mans w'at you see trollopin '… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat's all I knows--des wunner dese yer mans w'at you see trollopin 'roun' eve'y day. Who acts: I, you. 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 5

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Dat's all I knows--des wunner dese yer mans w'at you see trollopin 'roun' eve'y day.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** know, see · **To what, where:** dese w'at

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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, you), 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:pg2306:32:5
# text = Dat's all I knows--des wunner dese yer mans w'at you see trollopin 'roun' eve'y day.
1	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wunner	wunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dese	dese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	mans	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	trollopin	trollopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	eve'y	eve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | all dese w'at |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trollopin=Stimulus |

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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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