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title: Dey wuz dat flirtashus," continued the old man, closing one eye at h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey wuz dat flirtashus," continued the old man, closing one eye at his image in the glass, "dat Miss Meadows en de gals don't se no peace fum one week een' ter de udder. Who acts: Dey, de gals. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succee
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 4

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Dey wuz dat flirtashus," continued the old man, closing one eye at his image in the glass, "dat Miss Meadows en de gals don't se no peace fum one week een' ter de udder.

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**Who acts:** Dey, de gals · **What happens:** continue, close, not se, fum, image · **To what, where:** old man, one eye, image, peace, week een, glass

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, de gals), 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:pg2306:33:4
# text = Dey wuz dat flirtashus," continued the old man, closing one eye at his image in the glass, "dat Miss Meadows en de gals don't se no peace fum one week een' ter de udder.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flirtashus	flirtashus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	se	se	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	compound	_	_
41	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Dey | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **close** *in a quote* | gerund | Dey *not said here* | one eye |  | dey's image in the glass |  | dat *obl* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **se** | present · do-support | de gals | no peace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fum** | infinitive | de gals *not said here* | week een |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **image** *in a quote* |  | dey |  |  | the glass |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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