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title: I'd a know'd you in New 'Leens, let lone down dar in de kyar-shed." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I'd a know'd you in New 'Leens, let lone down dar in de kyar-shed." 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 29

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I'd a know'd you in New 'Leens, let lone down dar in de kyar-shed."

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**What happens:** let down · **To what, where:** lone

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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: 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:pg2306:46:29
# text = I'd a know'd you in New 'Leens, let lone down dar in de kyar-shed."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Leens	leen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	lone	lone	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	kyar	kyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let down** | infinitive |  | lone |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lone=Recipient dar=Theme |

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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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