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title: De Yankees, dey er done got ter Madison en Mounticellar, en 'twon't… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De Yankees, dey er done got ter Madison en Mounticellar, en 'twon't be many days 'fo' dey er down yer. ' Who acts: De Yankees, many days. 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 76

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De Yankees, dey er done got ter Madison en Mounticellar, en 'twon't be many days 'fo' dey er down yer. '

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**Who acts:** De Yankees, many days · **What happens:** do, get, not be · **To what, where:** dey, ter Madison 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 (De Yankees, many days), 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:pg2306:46:76
# text = De Yankees, dey er done got ter Madison en Mounticellar, en 'twon't be many days 'fo' dey er down yer. '
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Yankees	yankee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	er	er	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Madison	Madison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	Mounticellar	Mounticellar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	yer	y	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | dey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | De Yankees and dey | ter Madison en and en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive | many days |  |  |  |  | for dey er | 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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