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title: So dey fix it up 'mong deyse'f, Miss Meadows en de gals did, dat de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So dey fix it up 'mong deyse'f, Miss Meadows en de gals did, dat de nex' time de gents call dey'd gin um a game. Who acts: dey, gals, gents. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 6

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So dey fix it up 'mong deyse'f, Miss Meadows en de gals did, dat de nex' time de gents call dey'd gin um a game.

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**Who acts:** dey, gals, gents · **What happens:** fix up, do, dat, call, gin · **To what, where:** tavvum, Meadows en, game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, gals, gents), 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:pg2306:33:6
# text = So dey fix it up 'mong deyse'f, Miss Meadows en de gals did, dat de nex' time de gents call dey'd gin um a game.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dat	dat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	gents	gent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	gin	gin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	dep	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix up** | infinitive | dey | tavvum |  |  |  | mong deyse'f and Meadows en *obl* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | gals | Meadows en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dat** | infinitive | dey *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | gents |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **gin** | would | dey | a game |  |  |  |  | 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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