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title: Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 11

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Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be.

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**What happens:** let

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:36:11
# text = Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be.
1	Fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
3	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gwinter	gwinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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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