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title: Well, de Yankees, dey kep' passin' all de mawnin' en it look like te… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, de Yankees, dey kep' passin' all de mawnin' en it look like ter me dey wuz a string un um ten mile long. Who acts: Yankees, passin. 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 113

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Well, de Yankees, dey kep' passin' all de mawnin' en it look like ter me dey wuz a string un um ten mile long.

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**Who acts:** Yankees, passin · **What happens:** kep, look · **To what, where:** passin, mawnin en

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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 (Yankees, passin), 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:pg2306:46:113
# text = Well, de Yankees, dey kep' passin' all de mawnin' en it look like ter me dey wuz a string un um ten mile long.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Yankees	yankee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	passin	passin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kep** | infinitive | Yankees and dey | passin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | passin | all mawnin en *not said here* |  |  |  | like dey wuz | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Attribute |

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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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