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title: "How many er you boys," said he, as he put his basket down, "is done… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "How many er you boys," said he, as he put his basket down, "is done a han's turn dis day? Who acts: many, man. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 6

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"How many er you boys," said he, as he put his basket down, "is done a han's turn dis day?

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**Who acts:** many, man · **What happens:** er, say, put down, do · **To what, where:** you, basket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (many, man), 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:pg2306:50:6
# text = "How many er you boys," said he, as he put his basket down, "is done a han's turn dis day?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** *in a quote* | present | many | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **put down** | past | man | man's basket |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent basket=Goal |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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