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title: Sho nuff, in dey jump, en w'en dey got dar, Brer Fox, he say, sezee: — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Sho nuff, in dey jump, en w'en dey got dar, Brer Fox, he say, sezee: Who acts: dey. 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 22

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Sho nuff, in dey jump, en w'en dey got dar, Brer Fox, he say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** dey · **What happens:** get, say · **To what, where:** dey jump, Sho nuff · **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 (dey), 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:pg2306:37:22
# text = Sho nuff, in dey jump, en w'en dey got dar, Brer Fox, he say, sezee:
1	Sho	Sho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	w'en	w'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | dey | dey jump and en *not said here* |  |  |  | dar *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jump=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | dey | Sho nuff |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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