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title: En ef dem ain't nuff fer enny man den I done los' de way." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En ef dem ain't nuff fer enny man den I done los' de way." Who acts: I. 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 137

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En ef dem ain't nuff fer enny man den I done los' de way."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** done · **To what, where:** los

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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 (I), 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:pg2306:46:137
# text = En ef dem ain't nuff fer enny man den I done los' de way."
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
8	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	done	done	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	los	los	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **done** | present | I | los |  |  |  | de way *obl:unmarked* | 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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