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title: "Nex' mawnin' yer cum de man w'at de cow b'long ter, and he ax who k… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nex' mawnin' yer cum de man w'at de cow b'long ter, and he ax who kill Bookay. Who acts: Nex, ax. 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 30

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"Nex' mawnin' yer cum de man w'at de cow b'long ter, and he ax who kill Bookay.

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**Who acts:** Nex, ax · **What happens:** ax, kill · **To what, where:** Bookay

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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 (Nex, ax), 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:pg2306:37:30
# text = "Nex' mawnin' yer cum de man w'at de cow b'long ter, and he ax who kill Bookay.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nex	Nex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	b'long	b'long	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	Bookay	Bookay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ax** *in a quote* |  | Nex |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | present | ax | Bookay |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bookay=Theme |

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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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