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title: Dat boy er Mars John's is de ve'y spit en immij un you. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat boy er Mars John's is de ve'y spit en immij un you. Who acts: boy, you. 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 28

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Dat boy er Mars John's is de ve'y spit en immij un you.

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**Who acts:** boy, you · **What happens:** er, be, un · **To what, where:** de ve'y spit

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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 (boy, you), 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:pg2306:46:28
# text = Dat boy er Mars John's is de ve'y spit en immij un you.
1	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	er	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ve'y	ve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
12	immij	immij	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | past | that boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Mars's de ve'y spit and immij un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **un** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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