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title: You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? Who acts: You, w'at. 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 58

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You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

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**Who acts:** You, w'at · **What happens:** hide, do · **To what, where:** de fier, wid de smoke

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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: who acts (You, w'at), 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:pg2306:38:58
# text = You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	k'n	k'n	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | You | de fier |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fier=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | w'at and gwine | wid de smoke |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Eventuality |

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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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