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title: He say his ole 'oman sick, en his chilluns col', en de fier done gon… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He say his ole 'oman sick, en his chilluns col', en de fier done gone out. Who acts: den, chilluns, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 11

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He say his ole 'oman sick, en his chilluns col', en de fier done gone out.

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**Who acts:** den, chilluns, en · **What happens:** say, col, do, go out · **To what, where:** oman, en · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, chilluns, 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:pg2306:37:11
# text = He say his ole 'oman sick, en his chilluns col', en de fier done gone out.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	col	col	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	',	',	PART	POS	_	12	dep	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | den | den's ole's oman and en |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oman=Topic |
| 2 | **col** | present | den's chilluns | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go out** | participle | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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