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title: Fokes go 'bout in de day-time an' makes a livin', an' you come 'long… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fokes go 'bout in de day-time an' makes a livin', an' you come 'long w'en dey er res'in' der bones an' picks it up. Who acts: Fokes, you, res'in der bones. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 12

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Fokes go 'bout in de day-time an' makes a livin', an' you come 'long w'en dey er res'in' der bones an' picks it up.

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**Who acts:** Fokes, you, res'in der bones · **What happens:** go, make, come, pick up · **To what, where:** an, livin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fokes, you, res'in der bones), 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:pg2306:50:12
# text = Fokes go 'bout in de day-time an' makes a livin', an' you come 'long w'en dey er res'in' der bones an' picks it up.
1	Fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	livin	livin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	er	er	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	19	obl	_	_
25	res'in	res'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Fokes |  |  |  |  | bout *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | an |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset livin=Product |
| 3 | **come** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pick up** | present | res'in der bones *not said here* | livin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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