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title: Dar we sot w'iles de Yankees ransack de place. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dar we sot w'iles de Yankees ransack de place. Who acts: Dar sot w'iles. 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 97

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Dar we sot w'iles de Yankees ransack de place.

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**Who acts:** Dar sot w'iles · **What happens:** ransack · **To what, where:** de place

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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 (Dar sot w'iles), 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:pg2306:46:97
# text = Dar we sot w'iles de Yankees ransack de place.
1	Dar	Dar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Yankees	yankee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	ransack	ransack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ransack** | present | Dar sot w'iles de Yankees | de place |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent place=Location |

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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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