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title: Dey tells me dish yer train goes a callyhootin'." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey tells me dish yer train goes a callyhootin'." Who acts: Dey, train. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 12

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Dey tells me dish yer train goes a callyhootin'."

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**Who acts:** Dey, train · **What happens:** tell, go · **To what, where:** dish, me, callyhootin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, train), 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:pg2306:47:12
# text = Dey tells me dish yer train goes a callyhootin'."
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	callyhootin	callyhootin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Dey | dish | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | yer's train | a callyhootin |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location callyhootin=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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