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title: Ef dey didn't earn der vittles dat season den I ain't name Remus. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef dey didn't earn der vittles dat season den I ain't name Remus. Who acts: Ef dey, der, 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 70

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Ef dey didn't earn der vittles dat season den I ain't name Remus.

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**Who acts:** Ef dey, der, I · **What happens:** not earn, vittle, not name · **To what, where:** dat season den, Remus

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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 (Ef dey, der, 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:pg2306:46:70
# text = Ef dey didn't earn der vittles dat season den I ain't name Remus.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	earn	earn	VERB	VB	_	0	root	_	_
6	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	vittles	vittle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **earn** | past · do-support | Ef dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vittle** | present | der | dat season den |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **name** | present | I | Remus |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=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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