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title: You'd see mo' er de mink ef he know'd whar de yard dog sleeps. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You'd see mo' er de mink ef he know'd whar de yard dog sleeps. Who acts: You, er, Ef, yard dog. 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 69

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You'd see mo' er de mink ef he know'd whar de yard dog sleeps.

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**Who acts:** You, er, Ef, yard dog · **What happens:** see, ef, know, sleep · **To what, where:** mo, mink ef

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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, er, Ef, yard dog), 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:pg2306:38:69
# text = You'd see mo' er de mink ef he know'd whar de yard dog sleeps.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	mink	mink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would | You | mo |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mo=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ef** |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | Ef | mink ef *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sleep** | present | yard dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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