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title: Sleepin' in de fence-cornder don't fetch Chrismus in de kitchen. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleepin' in de fence-cornder don't fetch Chrismus in de kitchen. Who acts: Sleepin. 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 64

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Sleepin' in de fence-cornder don't fetch Chrismus in de kitchen.

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**Who acts:** Sleepin · **What happens:** not fetch · **To what, where:** Chrismus, de kitchen

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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 (Sleepin), 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:pg2306:38:64
# text = Sleepin' in de fence-cornder don't fetch Chrismus in de kitchen.
1	Sleepin	Sleepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	Chrismus	Chrismus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fetch** | present · do-support | Sleepin in de fence cornder | Chrismus |  | de kitchen |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chrismus=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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