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title: "I had good eyes in dem days, ef I ain't got um now, en way up de bi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "I had good eyes in dem days, ef I ain't got um now, en way up de big road I see Mars Jeems a comm'. Who acts: en. 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 125

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"I had good eyes in dem days, ef I ain't got um now, en way up de big road I see Mars Jeems a comm'.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** have, not get, see · **To what, where:** good eyes, ef, en way

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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 (en), 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:pg2306:46:125
# text = "I had good eyes in dem days, ef I ain't got um now, en way up de big road I see Mars Jeems a comm'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	um	um	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	de	de	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	comm	comm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | en | good eyes and ef |  |  | in dem days |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | en | ef *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | en | en way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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