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title: W'en I see coon track in de branch, I know de coon bin 'long dar." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en I see coon track in de branch, I know de coon bin 'long dar." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 25

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W'en I see coon track in de branch, I know de coon bin 'long dar."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, know · **To what, where:** W'en, de branch

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. 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:pg2306:34:25
# text = W'en I see coon track in de branch, I know de coon bin 'long dar."
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | W'en |  | de branch |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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