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title: Dey begs my terbacker, en borrys my tools, en steals my vittles, en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey begs my terbacker, en borrys my tools, en steals my vittles, en hit's done come ter dat pass dat I gotter pack up en go. Who acts: Dey, en, dat, 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 e
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 38

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Dey begs my terbacker, en borrys my tools, en steals my vittles, en hit's done come ter dat pass dat I gotter pack up en go.

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**Who acts:** Dey, en, dat, I · **What happens:** beg, steal, do, come, pass, gotter · **To what, where:** terbacker, vittles, en hit, dat, 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 (Dey, en, dat, 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:pg2306:46:38
# text = Dey begs my terbacker, en borrys my tools, en steals my vittles, en hit's done come ter dat pass dat I gotter pack up en go.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	terbacker	terbacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	borrys	borry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	steals	steal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	vittles	vittle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	obj	_	_
21	ter	ter	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	dat	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gotter	gotter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
27	pack	pack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Dey | my terbacker and en borrys |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent terbacker=Recipient |
| 2 | **steal** | present | en | my vittles |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vittle=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive |  | en hit |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | present | dat | dat |  |  |  | ter *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dat=Trajectory |
| 6 | **gotter** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pack up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | en |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme en=Destination |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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