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title: Deze de ve'y kinder footses w'at kicks up a row; Can't you jump inte… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Deze de ve'y kinder footses w'at kicks up a row; Can't you jump inter de middle en make yo' gal a bow? Who acts: ve'y footses w'at, Ca. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 140

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Deze de ve'y kinder footses w'at kicks up a row; Can't you jump inter de middle en make yo' gal a bow?

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**Who acts:** ve'y footses w'at, Ca · **What happens:** kick up, not jump, make · **To what, where:** row, inter middle en, yo gal

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ve'y footses w'at, Ca), 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:pg2306:41:140
# text = Deze de ve'y kinder footses w'at kicks up a row; Can't you jump inter de middle en make yo' gal a bow?
1	Deze	Deze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	ve'y	ve'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	footses	foots	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Ca	Ca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
16	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick up** | present | ve'y footses w'at | a row |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent row=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **jump** | present | Ca | inter middle en |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | yo gal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset gal=Beneficiary bow=Product |

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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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