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title: I know'd den dat trouble wuz brewin'. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I know'd den dat trouble wuz brewin'. Who acts: I, den dat. 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 83

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I know'd den dat trouble wuz brewin'.

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**Who acts:** I, den dat · **What happens:** know, brewin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, den dat), 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:pg2306:46:83
# text = I know'd den dat trouble wuz brewin'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	brewin	brewin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **brewin** | would | den dat |  |  |  |  |  | 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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