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title: But dey didn't bodder nobody ner tech nuthin', en bimeby dey put out. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: But dey didn't bodder nobody ner tech nuthin', en bimeby dey put out. Who acts: dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 112

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But dey didn't bodder nobody ner tech nuthin', en bimeby dey put out.

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**Who acts:** dey · **What happens:** do, put out · **To what, where:** nuthin bimeby dey

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey), 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:pg2306:46:112
# text = But dey didn't bodder nobody ner tech nuthin', en bimeby dey put out.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bodder	bodd	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	compound	_	_
7	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tech	tech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	',	',	PART	POS	_	9	dep	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **do** | past | dey | nuthin bimeby dey |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put out** | participle |  | nuthin bimeby dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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