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title: Meat fried 'fo' day won't las' twel night. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Meat fried 'fo' day won't las' twel night. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 27

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Meat fried 'fo' day won't las' twel night.

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**What happens:** fry · **To what, where:** Meat

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. 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:pg2306:38:27
# text = Meat fried 'fo' day won't las' twel night.
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fry** | participle |  | Meat *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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