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title: In de mellerest groun' de clay root 'll ketch En hol' ter de tongue… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: In de mellerest groun' de clay root 'll ketch En hol' ter de tongue er de plow, En a pine-pole gate at de gyardin-patch Never 'll keep out de ole brindle cow. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 6

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In de mellerest groun' de clay root 'll ketch En hol' ter de tongue er de plow, En a pine-pole gate at de gyardin-patch Never 'll keep out de ole brindle cow.

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**What happens:** not keep out · **To what, where:** En, de gyardin patch

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:45:6
# text = In de mellerest groun' de clay root 'll ketch En hol' ter de tongue er de plow, En a pine-pole gate at de gyardin-patch Never 'll keep out de ole brindle cow.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
3	mellerest	meller	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	de	de	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	hol	hol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	amod	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	plow	plow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	gyardin	gyardin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	brindle	brindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep out** | future |  | En  a pole gate |  | de gyardin patch |  | de ole brindle cow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at patch=Location |

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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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