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title: Fifteen poun' er meat a week, W'isky for ter sell, Oh, how can a you… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fifteen poun' er meat a week, W'isky for ter sell, Oh, how can a young man stay at home, Dem gals dey look so well? Who acts: young man, Dem. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 5

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Fifteen poun' er meat a week, W'isky for ter sell, Oh, how can a young man stay at home, Dem gals dey look so well?

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**Who acts:** young man, Dem · **What happens:** stay, gal, look · **To what, where:** home, dey

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Dem), 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:pg2306:43:5
# text = Fifteen poun' er meat a week, W'isky for ter sell, Oh, how can a young man stay at home, Dem gals dey look so well?
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	poun	poun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	W'isky	W'isky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sell	sell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gals	gal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | can | a young man |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **gal** | present | Dem | dey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | Dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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