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title: Des 'fo' day yer come a big black cat in de do', en de nigger git up… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Des 'fo' day yer come a big black cat in de do', en de nigger git up, he did, en druv her away. Who acts: yer, en. 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 54

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Des 'fo' day yer come a big black cat in de do', en de nigger git up, he did, en druv her away.

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**Who acts:** yer, en · **What happens:** come up, git, do · **To what, where:** big black cat, de, en druv

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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 (yer, en), 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:pg2306:34:54
# text = Des 'fo' day yer come a big black cat in de do', en de nigger git up, he did, en druv her away.
1	Des	Des	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	fo	fo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	',	',	PART	POS	_	19	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	druv	druv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | present | yer | a big black cat |  | de | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
| 2 | **git** |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | en | en druv |  |  |  | away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent druv=Eventuality |

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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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