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title: I had dem niggers up en in de fiel' long 'fo' day, en de way dey did… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I had dem niggers up en in de fiel' long 'fo' day, en de way dey did wuk wuz a caution. Who acts: I, dem, de way dey. 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 69

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I had dem niggers up en in de fiel' long 'fo' day, en de way dey did wuk wuz a caution.

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**Who acts:** I, dem, de way dey · **What happens:** have, nigger up, wuz · **To what, where:** en, de fiel, caution

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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, dem, de way dey), 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:pg2306:46:69
# text = I had dem niggers up en in de fiel' long 'fo' day, en de way dey did wuk wuz a caution.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	niggers	nigger	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	fo	fo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	wuk	wuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wuz	wuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	caution	caution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nigger up** | present | dem | en |  | de fiel |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wuz** | past · do-support | de way dey | a caution |  |  |  |  | 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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