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title: De gents, dey wuz a co'tin, but Miss Meadows, she don't wanter marry… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De gents, dey wuz a co'tin, but Miss Meadows, she don't wanter marry none un um, en needer duz de gals, en likewise dey don't wanter have um pester'n 'roun.' Who acts: ud, none, duz de gals. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 7

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De gents, dey wuz a co'tin, but Miss Meadows, she don't wanter marry none un um, en needer duz de gals, en likewise dey don't wanter have um pester'n 'roun.'

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**Who acts:** ud, none, duz de gals · **What happens:** not marry, gal, not have · **To what, where:** um

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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 (ud, none, duz 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:pg2306:33:7
# text = De gents, dey wuz a co'tin, but Miss Meadows, she don't wanter marry none un um, en needer duz de gals, en likewise dey don't wanter have um pester'n 'roun.'
1	De	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gents	gent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	co'tin	co'tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
19	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	duz	duz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	pester'n	pester'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	'	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **marry** | present · do-support | ud |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gal** |  | none |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | duz de gals and en  dey | um |  |  |  |  | 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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