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title: Down da, we set need de shade an' eaty de rice-bud, an' de crab, an'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Down da, we set need de shade an' eaty de rice-bud, an' de crab, an' de swimp tree time de day; an' de buckra man drinky him wine, an' smoky him seegyar all troo de night. Who acts: we, man drinky, him wine. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle R
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 26

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Down da, we set need de shade an' eaty de rice-bud, an' de crab, an' de swimp tree time de day; an' de buckra man drinky him wine, an' smoky him seegyar all troo de night.

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**Who acts:** we, man drinky, him wine · **What happens:** need, wine, seegyar · **To what, where:** da, troo

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, man drinky, him wine), 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:pg2306:49:26
# text = Down da, we set need de shade an' eaty de rice-bud, an' de crab, an' de swimp tree time de day; an' de buckra man drinky him wine, an' smoky him seegyar all troo de night.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	eaty	eaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
24	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	swimp	swimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
33	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	buckra	buckra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	drinky	drinky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	compound	_	_
38	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	smoky	smoky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	seegyar	seegyar	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	troo	troo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	de	de	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** |  | we | da |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shade=Theme |
| 2 | **wine** |  | a man drinky |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seegyar** | present | him wine and a smoky | all troo |  |  | night |  | 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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