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title: "Den you des played 'roun' de aidges. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den you des played 'roun' de aidges. Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 20

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"Den you des played 'roun' de aidges.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** roun aidges

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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:pg2306:52:20
# text = "Den you des played 'roun' de aidges.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
4	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	nsubj	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
10	aidges	aidge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** *in a quote* | past | Den  you | roun aidges |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aidge=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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