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title: I kin see 'er des like it 'uz yistiddy. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I kin see 'er des like it 'uz yistiddy. 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 61

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I kin see 'er des like it 'uz yistiddy.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** kin, see · **To what, where:** er des

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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:pg2306:46:61
# text = I kin see 'er des like it 'uz yistiddy.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	des	de	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	uz	uz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	yistiddy	yistiddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | er des |  |  |  | like uz yistiddy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer de=Stimulus |

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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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