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title: Witches is deze yer kinder fokes w'at kin drap der body en change in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Witches is deze yer kinder fokes w'at kin drap der body en change inter a cat en a wolf en all kinder creeturs." Who acts: Witches, yer kinder fokes, deze. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 39

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Witches is deze yer kinder fokes w'at kin drap der body en change inter a cat en a wolf en all kinder creeturs."

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**Who acts:** Witches, yer kinder fokes, deze · **What happens:** be, drap, change · **To what, where:** deze, der body en, inter

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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 (Witches, yer kinder fokes, deze), 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:pg2306:34:39
# text = Witches is deze yer kinder fokes w'at kin drap der body en change inter a cat en a wolf en all kinder creeturs."
1	Witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	deze	deze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Witches | deze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drap** | present | yer kinder fokes  w'at kin | der body en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present | deze | inter |  |  |  |  | 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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